I love Telegram because of the wide set of features, because of their bot API and because I can easily use it on any client I want - including Bitlbee. And I li

I love Telegram because of the wide set of features, because of their bot API and because I can easily use it on any client I want - including Bitlbee. And I like Signal because of its built-in security, although the lack of an API, easy integration into other clients, automation and ease of use from multiple devices prevent me from using it more. But I guess that this is a trade-off to be accepted for having strong encryption and messages stored only on the device. Let's keep in mind however that these are advanced use cases, and that for 99% of the users these are just apps supposed to deliver text and media from A to B. In 2021 it's not hard to build an app like these, even with E2E encryption and 2FA. Social lock-in obviously plays a role, but I'm really appalled by the scarcity of alternatives that enables companies like Facebook to bully us into reading our private messages for advertising purpose and easily get away with it.