A lot of privacy guides suggest avoiding Telegram. I understand that in its default mode there’s no E2EE (and no E2EE for groups at all). If people I know don’t wanttko use Signal, isn’t Telegram the lesser evil given it’s nicer privacy policy (than other popular ones)?
Say I use the FOSS version of it.
I was afraid of that outcome and went for the auto-delete option, some groups have just a few days in terms of retention.
I’m sorry you had to go through this though.