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before answering, i'd like to preface that i personally don't take in consideration the number of users when analyzing the value of a tool, as 100% of my friends can reach me via sms.
i'm not going into the technical details of why signal is more secure than anything else in our age (i invite you to make your own way into their blog https://signal.org/blog) the striking thing about people working on signal is their intention; the tool is completely open-source, the foundation is a non-profit based on donations. we're seeing what happens when durov's money starts to run out: how long will his ads strategy last, before he needs to invent another trick to keep the boat afloat?
The problem with Signal is that its from the United States, which means the have to follow the orders of CIA and other agencies. Telegram doesn't have that problem.
I agree, as I wrote elsewhere. But this could be mitigated against if Signal would allow 3rd party clients and externally compiled clients (on fdroid for example). But they have been openly hostile to this (with IMHO very weak arguments), so that disqualifies them in my view.
thanks for the feedback, i went reading that and reviewed the webpage i think i was too messianic about signal, so i left signal as the first suggestion, but invite the reader to explore the complexity of the topic