Sticker repository? lol, Telegram has that market cornered and you know it :)
https://matrix.org/ is probably the only reasonable solution to your problem but reading between the lines you’re inferring that Telegram is dead in the water.
I’m a popcorn fanantic and await to see the, corns?
Which, “government”, are you referring to here if you could expand please?
Or are you saying all governments are averse to Telegram?