It’s strange that’s how it came across to you. The difference compared to your analogy is that Telegram’s self‐rolled crypto is a problem many messengers don’t

It’s strange that’s how it came across to you. The difference compared to your analogy is that Telegram’s self‐rolled crypto is a problem many messengers don’t have, and it can’t be mitigated by the client. Whereas the possibility of malicious things being done on Signal’s server end is a problem shared by every messenger, and Signal works hard to mitigate this by pushing smarts like contact handling entirely to the client side. I also don’t see why you brought up “owning your own data.” I already discussed that the same “don’t trust external servers” axiom applies to self‐hosted federated systems as well.