Spain has not really banned Telegram. It has instituted a temporary restriction while the company appeals. However, this restriction isn’t really enforceable, because it must be implemented within 3 hours of the ISPs receiving the ban notice. However, ISPs can only receive these notices oficially on working days, and right now they’re celebrating easter.

Telegram has 3 days to appeal the ban, and it probably will appeal before ISPs start blocking it. The appeal will most probably be accepted (as Telegram is an important company, and many people there use it as their only messaging app).

Thus, the ban will probably be lifted even before ISPs start blocking Telegram, unless something goes terribly wrong.

I’m all for switching for Session, but it has some serious issues that can’t be ignore and that you didn’t talk about:

• Messages fail to send WAY too often. On mobile it automatically retries to send the message so all good, but not on desktop / windows. Having to resend the same message 5 times for it to finally work is annoying
• Notifications and message reception can be really delayed on mobile (android specifically), but goes faster on iOS than on desktop
• Mobile apps have some accessibility issues like not scrolling down automatically when a new message is received while the conversation is open
• The android app regularly crashes
• the onion routing sometimes gets stuck on mobile. The solution is to close the app and wait for it to choose a new route
• image quality sucks. Too much compression even with the best settings enabled

These issues have been here for a couple of years now. That’s pretty annoying not to see any change and improvement