That's a good point. I was asking more because it'd be great for Pavel to give then a big fuck you while arrested. Like the server coming on top of Nostr or something crazy like that
Telegram is already free software on the CLIENT side, it's the server-side software that's still proprietary crap.
https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS
On the other hand, why the fuck would you use Telegram when other (actually private) options exist?
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Why not build a truly private Telegram killer ON Nostr?
Yes that too.
Because nostr by design isn't supposed to be private. I don't know how good simplex is but I would say that people should probably look to help dev that into something better if it doesn't yet meet their needs or fork it if necessary since it's open source.