The Telegram founder is hated by the Russian government, and does not live in Russia. There have been some futile attempts to block Telegram in Russia. Signal

The Telegram founder is hated by the Russian government, and does not live in Russia. There have been some futile attempts to block Telegram in Russia. Signal may be open source, but it's still as centralized as Telegram is. Signal.org will never federate with other servers running Signal (this is the official position). Signal also lags behind a lot in UX and convenience, when compared to Wire or Telegram.