Okay well, I did. It was on the iOS Telegram client, US phone number. Maybe Pavel pushed it only to certain clients.

Yes

What I found most alarming about this whole thing: this post showed up in the Telegram app for me, in a banner. I don’t follow Durov’s channel. He decided to push it to every Telegram client regardless of whether they’re following him.

And he posted it to his Telegram channel, too: https://t.me/durov/452

Yeah the message is only half right.

The MPA can try all they want, they’ll never defeat piracy.

No, only some of their clients are.

Assuming every connection you make is encrypted with TLS (HTTPS) or otherwise encrypted:

If you use encrypted custom DNS, your ISP sees only the IP addresses you connect to. If you use unencrypted DNS or ISP-provided DNS, they see the hostnames plus the IP addresses.

Why? They (used to) push disgustingly deceptive marketing and had an embarrassing server breach.

What do you mean by “portfolio”?

Really well implemented, thanks so much. I love Mlem.

I wonder, though, what do the Mlem devs think of Apple's new design language?