I fully understand the argument and kinda agree. That said, here’s why i still use the Telegram self-chat just like OP, you can suggest a note-taking app replacement if you think:

• Paste a link, instant preview of it without user intervention, can play it right on the app if it’s audio/video if i want or get a preview of it if it’s just a page without opening a full browser (this puts it automatically above a “synced notepad” which is what i understand note taking apps tend to be)
• Synced across devices
• Both desktop and mobile
• Private, no one else sees it
• Easy and convenient, i usually have Telegram running already, just switch to it on browser or desktop and copy or paste the thing

Gimme a note taking app that has all these, that is not a big program needing lots of resources to run all the time, and that i can self-host for the server part (or E2EE P2P like Syncthing) and we’re cooking!

Since i use the self-chat on Telegram a lot i’ve wished for exactly the same thing in the past as i’m planning on leaving the service, so far haven’t found a right fit yet

Likely https://pivot-to-ai.com/

This advice is not directly related to that, this is the same advice given by security-oriented organizations all over to compensate with people being people

The only correction i’d do to this message is to stop calling this person “Zuck”, Mark Zuckerberg IS NOT YOUR FRIEND, stop calling these fucking bastards cutesy friend names or on a first name basis (like “Elon”, Zuck" and others like this) , they DO NOT deserve them and they WANT to be called that

At this point we have some things established:

• MC is very much a Ciaphas Cain/Lightspeed Masayuki style character, does not want absolutely anything with the hero thing but is pushed to it by external circumstances AND must act like it because the consequences of the whole thing ending would be BAD, i utterly love this
• Narrative Causality itself is having an absolute blast making everything the MC does look like he’s a super-competent hero, when in reality he’s just messing around and trying to NOT be a hero
• There’s too much fanservice around Tino, and doesn’t look like it’s gonna stop
• The abusive relationship between Tino and her sensei Liz seems to be played for laughs but is rather offputing

Both very good and very bad things about this series, i think the good are worth remaining but that might change

Actually felt bad about that poor robot, no one deserves being the target of these jerks 😂

He’s the duct tape that keeps the story together, without him there would be no story, and if he were to disappear it would dissipate into nothing, plus he serves as our audience proxy. Also i just cannot get enough of him and Licia interacting, they’re too damn adorable!

And that’s one of the many reasons why we want private communications, we want no creepy megacorp listening in

It’s not gone, it has gone underground, i like this model to describe the current internet