I use codeberg.org for my stuff.

Telegram has approximately 1 billion global users. Signal only has around 100 million. Telegram is about 10x the size of Signal.

Unlike Signal, Telegram is successful in getting people to move away from Meta’s Whatsapp.

Maybe it just wants to play a nice game of chess.

No it is not. This is just nonsense.

Other companies outsource their KYC compliance to them.

the name of the company is known. it’s IDMERIT: https://www.idmerit.com/

KYC does nothing against rich people. Panama Papers came out and nothing happened. Law enforcement does not target rich people.

Boomer who doesn’t understand technology wants to go back to 1980s.

They are leaving because they are getting much better offers elsewhere.