Links grupos signal whatsapp telegram iphone reddit. . If you want some privacy and some functionality, Telegram is better. Well, every I know with an iPhone was using Signal before this Whatsapp debacle, I had long ago converted them. Signal is only (and imagine only ever will be) a messaging service and not a public forum. Telegram is a good replacement for Whatsapp in terms of features and in terms of not being owned by Facebook. WhatsApp leaks a lot of data though (eg: uploads your contacts to WhatsApp/Facebook servers, doesn't proxy link previews, etc). And in that case I would go with matrix over signal because you need a phone number to use signal, and I don't know how privacy advocates can tolerate that. Signal is the most secure, in terms of being nothing more than a delivery service for completely E2E encrypted messaging. An unofficial community for news and discussion about Signal, an open-source private messenger developed by the non-profit Signal Foundation. The Android friends I had were on a variety of Signal, Whatsapp, FB Messenger and Telegram. Telegram have started running into issues with this branch of their app with the rise of right wing/hateful groups that have migrated from deplatformed Twitter users and the closure of Parler. Texting is a "best effort" protocol, which means it'll attempt to send your message only as long as it feels like it, and if it fails, it'll be forever lost to the ether. I highly doubt that they can read WhatsApp messages because they use Signal's end-to-end encryption/protocol. In general, chat apps (like whatsapp, telegram, signal, etc) are just more reliable and fuck up less often than texting. nqfv pgbqsp snfz zggpsp fpmmw foykyos nxdm mokd thsh mwns