The reason the judge ordered the block is that Telegram ignored his requests for information. That is a dangerous thing to do.
The groups I'm subscribed to are creating parallel groups in Whatsapp in case the block starts working.
The groups I'm subscribed to are creating parallel groups in Whatsapp in case the block starts working.
Going to Meta-Facebook-owned Whatsapp is not a real alternative if you're in any way concerned about privacy or autonomy. Hosting an XMPP server is dead easy, apt install prosody and a few configuration steps and you're done. It hardly takes any resources and is nearly maintenance-free (for me 'totally maintenance-free', I have never had to fiddle with it since installing it years ago even though it has been updated as part of the normal update cycle).
Anyway, I don't believe this is going to last, unless Telegram itself decides to leave Spain. They've ignored a court request for information, not even a takedown request and they're now learning that they can't do that.
People is resorting to the app's built-in proxies, but if Telegram doesn't answer, I'm afraid that hole will be fixed too.