It's not a replacement, since it doesn't have the same feature sets or ergonomics. Don't get me wrong, I use signal a lot and I love it, but presenting signals

It's not a replacement, since it doesn't have the same feature sets or ergonomics. Don't get me wrong, I use signal a lot and I love it, but presenting signals as an alternative to whatsapp is only going to disappoint people. Telegram is closer, but neither e2e encrypted nor open source. Still, I would say if you are in America and not dealing with state or industrial secrets, getting spied on by russians is better than by meta. Basically, I use both: signals for my privacy oriented friends that will go through the ordeal of using signal, and telegram with the normies so that at least they get of the zuck train.