I’m from Mexico, and the most used chat application is WhatsApp. It’s used for EVERYTHING. I use Telegram only for contacting my family members (both my parents and my brother). They also use it only for this family chat. All my (and their) contacts use WhatsApp instead.
Now with the news that Telegram will collaborate with Twitter, I feel that I should delete it. Not that Zuck is any better than Musk, but still…
Also I don’t think it’s worth the effort to teach my parents yet another messaging app, like signal.
Element is ideal but no one uses it, Signal is still good and mostly similar to WhatsApp so easy to adopt. Telegram is utter garbage, bin it immediately in favour of one of the two above. Even if you swap it for WhatsApp it would be better than keeping Telegram.
why telegram is bad?
No default end-to-end encryption (only in Secret Chats)
Messages stored on Telegram servers, not fully private
Uses custom, less-proven encryption protocol (MTProto)
Server-side code is not open source, reducing transparency
what is the case of encrypted secret chats? are they stored in server, or in devices.
Should just be on device