@Listens to Baroque while coding murder.exe :newt:  Might be true.
My family and a lot of friends got onto Matix relatively easily. Telegram is the most popular IM I think, or maybe WhatsApp — but truth is, most of those who are even remotely privacy-conscious don't trust either.
And the fact that you can really go to prison for saying something online — no one monitors all the bullshit people post online of course, but the one winning the "golden ticket" might always happen to be you. And this definitely facilitates the adoption of IMs that are not Telegram.
Telegram is still a great source of news, but if you are more paranoid than average joe and still want to discuss things, Matrix looks like a good alternative. 

 @m0xEE oh you too are Russian? Everyone is Russian today!