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So what's the replacement?
For private messaging? Signal was always better. The way I use Telegram, and the way Telegram should be used, is like another public social media. I use it for following channels that give news about things I'm interested in.
I love the premise of Signal, but there are too many red flags. Some of my issues are:
That's fair. I just use it because it's what everyone's on. When I used Briar only one other person I spoke to used it, and I just use Matrix for some more techy communities I'm in. For my friends and non-tech-savvy comrades, they're all on Signal, and I imagine trying to move people to something more decentralised/more in the spirit of foss/etc would lead to my social circles becoming very split in terms of how I talk to them. But I get your point.