Well telegram is already profitable with showing minimal ad, and no user data selling. You just can't make up points that going for IPO will make them less secure, why so much rush? Just wait and watch what happens.
The plus point is, telegrams client is open source, so you can always make a client which is less bloated (I am sure there are plenty already in the market).
the thing is, Ive been using its crypto features for freelancing and everything went smoothly till date (been using it for 1 year). If you term crypto in general is scam, thats different thing
Here's another response I got from someone from radicle regarding this.
That's a great Q.
Radicle can support a federated model, where known major seeds are connected with multiple smaller clusters. >Radicle supports also completely self-sustaining and disconnected clusters of nodes networked between themselves >within that cluster. And of course any other network topography in between.
Additionally, similar to how one can "star" a repo on GitHub, one can "seed" a repo on Radicle. "Starring" a repo is >often a toast of support, akin to an emoji reaction, with little more effect other than that, but in Radicle "seeding" a >project, goes beyond incrementing a vanity metric: it actively supports propagating that project across the Radicle >network. The count of seedings per repo can also be used as a differentiator between original and "copy-cat" ones.
Same question. P2p was initially used to pirate stuff e.g. movies which isn't a private property and streaming that through p2p made a lot of sense. But for codes I don't know if its appropriate or not...
Its better because:
It can sustain big public groups (upto 200k peoples),
channels with unlimited subscribers,
unlimited cloud storage (files upto 4gb, synced across devices),
powerful bots,
web apps,
native crypto support,
you can do pretty much anything within the app (literally a superapp),
heaven for pirates,
stickers, video calls, live streams, etc.
unlimited devices could be signed up for one account,
messages sync across devices,
free with minimal ads, premium to get more features,
completely run by users support and ad platform, no external entity involved.
secret chats for end 2 end encryption chats and much more.
very short ads without any external links. Only visible to users who havent bought telegram premium and only one ad per channel that too only if you scroll down
Shoes you can express your views freely on telegram, seems plus point to me