[_odey]

I avoid everything else apart from Signal (this includes Telegram) because with Signal I trust that they have:

- end-to-end encryption enabled by default, and as far as I know there is no possible way to disable this even if I wanted to.

- no logs/state stored server side, or at least that's what they claimed.

- no SPAM. The only people that talk to me on signal are the ones I actually intend to talk to. Not sure if this is just because so few people use Signal or because they don't have a chat-bot API they try to push as a commercial offer.

- a non-profit organization structure, not that being a for-profit is bad, but I tend to trust non-profits more when it comes to things like respecting privacy as a core value of their business (a for-profit would scrap that and abuse their market share at the snap of a shareholder finger).

[sebastianconcpt]

I'd agree with all that. An in the past I'd also tend to like non-profits more until I've realized that these are as vulnerable as a for-profit in terms of ideological contamination.