@ksv236 thank you for your respectful retort. I should be more clear with my use of “shady.”
Telegram may not be shady, but their platform makes me feel uncomfortable. Messages aren’t fully encrypted by default. You can turn this on, but I find it concerning that it’s not a default.
They claim this is because most people want their messages available on multiple devices. But that’s not an excuse to degrade privacy on an app that’s designed/marketed as a secure messaging platform.