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OK, before 2014, so?
Wha-ha-ha? Not 1993, not 1996, not 1999, not 2008, but for whatever reason 2014? For fscking real.
I'll admit that Russian participation on the Azeri side in Artsakh in 1992 was a kinda obscure thing, and it was the weird entity called CIS troops, so one can kinda shift the blame to USSR's convulsions.
But the "resolution" of the constitutional crisis in 1993 was sufficiently fascist by itself.
When bombing Grozny was considered normal, that wasn't fascist apparently. The "counter-terrorist" activities after 1999 were not fascist apparently. The "individual of Caucasian ethnicity" stuff on TV wasn't fascist apparently. Just Crimea was.
I mean, admittedly 2008 is not as certain, because Saakashvili really was a jerk, he hurt that nice picture of potential democratization of any ex-USSR country quite a lot, because, you know, when spring comes, snow melts and shit shows. In case of Saakashvili the simple fact that he was basically a mafia boss, just not pro-Russian, but pro-Turkish, showed. Also closed a lot of Armenian schools in Tbilisi and pressed many Armenians out of there, and theft and destruction of Armenian heritage too mostly happened in his time.
And it's unclear which of the improvements in Georgia in his time were simply due to time passing and restoration after civil war, and which were due to those genial reforms people loved to praise.
It's not libertarian in any way. His "libertarian" stuff is as sincere and thought through as his "security" stuff. Telegram is not a libertarian project. Tox would be maybe.
Russian government didn't even stop having official channels there for the duration of those supposed blocking attempts.
They are still a laughing stock, you actually don't need a VPN to visit things blocked in Russia (unless they block Russian users on their side), just tools like ByeDPI (runs as a local socks5 proxy, see it options descriptions for the kind of things it changes). Admittedly dumb me didn't know this until last week.
Oh. So returning to the "fascist" parts - the main reason Russian society is such shit today is because since 1993 it's been gaslighted by its own intelligentsia and "the civilized world" to try and persuade itself that what's happening is not fascism.
It's like an autistic person not noticing that they have to give their eyes rest, or take a more healthy pose, or eat something, or cover their eyes from light, or find a place more quiet, and also keeping the effort to imitate "normal" behavior.
In 1998-1999 it went bull-blown fascist, and the real intelligentsia and opposition would squeal out loud, but some were killed, some marginalized on TV and pressed out from common discourse. Since then Russians have basically been desensitized to anything at all. And then were those fat years with some wh*res cosplaying as opposition (they still do) and everyone becoming more and more pessimistic. Until a few economic and social crises took more war to divert attention.
I'd say the western propaganda model is different from that of Russia, or Ukraine, or Israel, or Azerbaijan. So western countries benefit less from doing propaganda the Telegram way.
I suggest you read up on Signal's protocol. It's very rudimentary metadata.
Anyway, "infer from metadata" is nice comparing to plaintext with encryption between client and server only.
I'm not sure you can say that when they have all of the chat history and uploaded files and so on unencrypted.
You don't know that.
They are supposedly a non-profit and exist on donations.
What's not usable about it? I've installed it yesterday, seems not too different from WhatsApp (gifs work).
Maybe you've tried it somewhere around 2017 when people like Bruce Schneier would recommend it?