TBH Telegram makes the right kind of tradeoffs for me - I like having cloud based chat sync between devices way more than I care about someone reading my shopping discussions with my wife or my friend group chats.
And then if I need to make something private I can start a private chat.
And the interface is easy to sell to non-techies, especially compared to Signal.
This is all in theory anyway - it's entirely possible that Telegram sends everything to some government entity somewhere even for private chats - but frankly I don't care that much so I'll trust the claims and audits.
And then if I need to make something private I can start a private chat.
And the interface is easy to sell to non-techies, especially compared to Signal.
This is all in theory anyway - it's entirely possible that Telegram sends everything to some government entity somewhere even for private chats - but frankly I don't care that much so I'll trust the claims and audits.