I take issue with your description of Telegram as "really weird and sketchy". You don't give any evidence other than Durov's personal opinions. And he's certain

I take issue with your description of Telegram as "really weird and sketchy". You don't give any evidence other than Durov's personal opinions. And he's certainly entitled to them, given all the weird, often totally illogical beliefs everyone else in the world holds. You toss out another statement in "TON was a disaster" without explanation. If you're going to make really big statements like this, please go into detail otherwise you're just shooting from the hip. TON was a disaster because the SEC got involved. TON, as a technical solution to decentralizing Telegram, was a great idea and I'm sad Telegram was forced into a position of paying for all that infrastructure another way, with ads (opt-in, non-tracking, and only in one-to-many channels but still, ads).