If Russia is interested in your coffee tips you should be a really important person, so you surely have the motivation and the resources to go non custodial :)
When you have a minute please prove "the fact", thanks!
Discussion
the fact being that the only encryption on telegram is https and on their servers
“you dont need e2ee bcs u aint important” isnt really great point to debate
https://tsf.telegram.org/manuals/e2ee-simple
As said at the end of my post: don't let the perfection kill the excellency.
If you and you friends are comfortable with a full non custodial path that's wonderful. Please share the details after the Telegram critic so everyone can learn and choose.
A personal view: I chose to use the proposed solution to support Calle's work and to have a separate easy wallet for tips/zaps so I don't flood the main one history.