Publishing a dataset is just inviting legal trouble. Look at all the nonsense Laion had to go through for Laion-5b. I;m not suprised people are not publishing datasets more.
ANYONE who understood how telegram works and also felt it was a tool for privacy doesn’t really understand privacy in the digital age.
Telegram is the most realistic alternative to breaking Meta's monopoly. You might like Signal very much, but nobody uses it and the user experience is horrible.
Western governments hate Telegram because until now Telegram didn't cooperate with Western intelligence services like American social media companies do. Everything on Meta or Google gets fed into NSA, but Telegram has been uncooperative.
This will likely change after Durov's arrest, but it was nice while it lasted.
millions of people in the third world are growing out of poverty thanks to the advance of technology.