Flatpak applications *always* open new instances, when they're not supposed to

Telegram doesn't offer official .deb releases, and I'd like to stay away from Discord (outside of Flatpak with some permissions changed) as their privacy practices are generally questionable

However, I can confirm that website releases of Telegram don't suffer this issue.
At the same time however, the very same Flatpak version of Telegram works fine across any other distribution I have tried on MANY different Desktops, notably Arch Linux, Solus, Fedora, and clean Debian 11

I am aware that the website releases exist, and I have just been using that until the issue is resolved, though I much rather use Flatpak not only for sandboxing, but also Portals, Permissions, Installation in User-Space, as well as it being Distribution-agnostic.

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