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Why would I want to use telegram in the first place?
1. It's not Facebook's 2. The clients are open source (for me that's a moral reason) 3. Secret chats are verifiably encrypted 4. You can make your own client if you want, causing: 4.1. Someone used a custom client (tgcli) to create a backup feature, which I extended to make html exports like MSN had (quite a future-proof and readable format). This prevents lock-in. 4.2. You are much less restricted in your choice of…
Good point. Do you have strategies which you used to convince your friends to start using Telegram?