AFAIK, Bandcamp lets you stream the tracks before you purchase them, Amazon also lets you stream free wth ads along with purchasing mp3s, so you can enjoy the catalogs and buy what you like on the same platform.

You can store your music on any cloud storage you wish, the free capacites can be enough, or a NAS or something.

I believe purchasing mp3's is a good solution.

How many people would make that trade?

OsmAnd has 10 million downloads counted on Google play

How is telegram any better than that? Unless you use Secret Chats it is not even end-to-end encrypted.

Network effect 😃

It's worrying how Telegram says "all your chats are protected with strong encryption" while this is just standard stuff nowadays (wasn't when Telegram came out, to be fair). While it's technically true, it's almost sure to be misinterpreted and have it sound like it's equal to actual e2ee software

AFAIK homeservers retain complete metadata for all your conversations.

Ohh didn't know about the .i, tysm! I knew of i.reddit.com and reddit.com/.compact and both have been killed.