Just my Whatsapp abstinence alone is costing me dearly socially. Without Telegram it would be straight to the hermitage. Very few normies use even Signal, let alone all the weird and wonderful “even more private” alternatives whose names I never bother to try to remember.

This advice is completely disconnected from the reality of anyone who has, or wants to have, a social life.

Whatsapp > Telegram tho, Telegram isn’t encrypted by default which means someone can read your messages on the servers. This not being made clear and having to open a “secret chat” to make the user gullable is a big nono for me.

Also big tech wants you to think you are alone without them and you NEED them, i use Signal only these days, most of my friends have it.

They all have shitton of apps for every shit company which is ridiculous on its own, so what damage does one more app do them (is what i ask…)

The few ones still refusing i just call if i need smth.

Whatsapp > Telegram tho, Telegram isn’t encrypted by default

This argument I have never found convincing. For all its faults Telegram is open source. Nothing made by Meta is. When they say “it’s encypted and we promise there’s no backdoor”, we are taking their word for it. I am not a cynical person but I can think of a thousand companies more trustworthy than Meta.