this is an extremely bad take. Signal is a very open company and the protocol has had extensive scrutiny, and has a history of making good choices, like minimi

this is an extremely bad take. Signal is a very open company and the protocol has had extensive scrutiny, and has a history of making good choices, like minimising the data they hold and defaulting to E2EE, as well as being hated by approximately all governments. Telegram is extremely opaque, deliberately conflates various security things, doesn't default to encrypting anything, doesn't support encrypted group chats, has been hacked several times, and is extremely tolerated by very repressive regimes.