If author runs the local model for privacy reasons, then I don't understand why they give Telegram access to all their conversations. It's well known that Telegram doesn't end-to-end encrypt bot accounts.
The beauty of this is that you can just swap out the platform and everything remains as it's the same backend. You make a really good point, one that I haven't really considered, but I also only have so many hours in the day to be fiddling around with stuff.
