How is it telegram could handle the volume of new users when Gab and Signal couldn't?
Something to ponder for any who joined TG
How To Delete Your Telegram Account Permanently – 2021 Update
https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/how-to-delete-your-telegram-account-permanently/
If you’re one of the millions of people who use the private messaging app Telegram, read on to learn more about Telegram’s security issues and to find out how to permanently delete your account if that’s what you decide to do.
Privacy concerns about private messaging app Telegram were raised not long after its launch in 2013. The default setting of the app doesn’t encrypt communications between you and the recipient. If you don’t enable the Secret Chat feature, your conversations will be saved on Telegram’s servers, which are located across the globe.
Telegram claims that your stored chat data is encrypted on their servers and that they retain the information in case you want to restore old chats. However, this raises the question as to why storing your data isn’t on an opt-in basis, or why end-to-end encryption is not the default setting. Storing data is an expensive endeavor for a non-profit company, so why do they do it?
Furthermore, there have been a number of issues with the security of Telegram in the past. In 2017 hackers exploited a Unicode bug in the Telegram software that allowed them to install remote control cryptocurrency miners and malware on vulnerable Windows computers.