I’m surprised, nobody is mentioning WhatsApp as an alternative. They released usernames a few months ago, all messages are end-to-end encrypted, will add voice and video calls to WhatsApp Web, many people and companies have an account there already… It would be an easy migration, but awful for privacy.

What’s app claims E2EE but it’s not really they store everything on their servers that any one of their staff can access at any point

That is false.

it’s absolutely true actually… whatsapp are the key holders and there was a leak a few weeks ago that showed meta staff can access anyone’s messages: they just need to raise a ticket and they get access to an app that allows them to pull up any user the like

There was no leak. It was an ex employee who claimed that others were able to access everyone’s messages.