Currently I'm on telegram primarily. Loving it, using the bots, using the gifs built in, using the stickers and the cloud storage. I don't love the encryption.
But my next switch will be to a self hosted/federated solution such as https://riot.im/, at least for me and my wife. I will not be able to make friends use and trust my server (they shouldn't for their private messages) and they won't run their own.
Signal looks nice but man the Telegram desktop client on Linux is also very very convenient, plus the fact that you don't need your phone to be on.
But my next switch will be to a self hosted/federated solution such as https://riot.im/, at least for me and my wife. I will not be able to make friends use and trust my server (they shouldn't for their private messages) and they won't run their own.
Signal looks nice but man the Telegram desktop client on Linux is also very very convenient, plus the fact that you don't need your phone to be on.