It was a many months transition, and it’s finally done
Fun thing, you can actually make a backup of all* your messages, groups, contacts, etc. So before leaving you can have all of your data in case you need that one contact or something
The final red flag was as that allegedly Russian authorities were messing with people’s deleted messages. Not for the first time there are news that they could read, modify, delete, see location, and etc. Screw it, this is unsafe, I’m out.
Also, these days telegram is really at the state of a pile of garbage, bloated, buggy, and shady messenger.
Deleted the app and account recently as well. I’m hoping that having the account deleted means that people don’t try to use it to message me there.
People who had you listed will just see “Deleted Account” instead of your name, and a little ghost as your avatar.
They will still see your chat history though.