This post has some useful information, but the recommendation of other centralized platforms that rely on a phone number make this post seem like the pile of FU

This post has some useful information, but the recommendation of other centralized platforms that rely on a phone number make this post seem like the pile of FUD that Telegram has been enduring for long. Contact theft, metadata, susceptibility to phone number for setting up or verifying an account are issues shared by the other recommendations too. [1] For someone who doesn’t know much about security, it comes down to “who can be trusted”, and that question applies to Signal and Threema too. [1]: Edit. I wasn’t aware that Threema does not require phone numbers. Thanks to dbrgn for correcting me.