You won’t get answers for this fact, which has been known for quite sometime and has come up in past HN discussions whenever Telegram is criticized for not prov

You won’t get answers for this fact, which has been known for quite sometime and has come up in past HN discussions whenever Telegram is criticized for not providing the server source code (Telegram’s founder has given an official answer for that). Since the Signal platform does collect metadata, even though it’s very less compared to what other platforms collect, anyone who trusts Signal must assume that any metadata collected by Signal could possibly be available to people whom it shouldn’t ideally be available to. Is that really bad? Can’t say, unless you look at your threat model, what’s important to you and the mitigation factors to consider.