Telegram uses the Signal protocol? How do you propose Telegram give their users the ability to expose their location to other people without exposing their location to them?
How do you propose that users trust in their secure messaging app, when safety is the priority? Nothing stops you from putting your location into Telegram to send it. The issue is code that does it for you.
The code is not an issue. Users shouldn't trust that their messaging app does not share their location when they ordered their messaging app to share their location, that makes no sense.
That completely misses the point that there are users for whom location sharing is a strict no-go. Having the feature exist to pose a risk of accidental enabling or default enabling could result in death.
That is not a reason to cripple the default client. Fortunately, unlike Signal and WhatsApp Telegram is not a walled garden and you can use a different client.
There is no problem with location sharing being enabled by default because location sharing is not enabled by default.
Signal is not a garden at all. It is a secure communication app that doesn't risk failing its primary mission by accident or accidental misuse. It's not trying to be a social network.
Please explain what's the relevant difference between a social network and a communications app in this context. I'm not going to argue about the exact definition of walled garden, I think my point was clear.
Yes, this failure mode is not literally impossible. It also isn't literally impossible that Signal accidentally logs all communications to a central server. And as I said: If you want or need to be that careful, just use a different client.
