[selykg]

Yea, Telegram is a great middle ground.. sort of.

It has secure options at least. But importantly doesn't require my phone number to create an account and contact people. But also has a lot of features that are missing in something like Signal.

Signal is my preferred option, but I'm not keen on sharing my phone number with everyone.

[darkfirefly]

Telegram doesn't require your phone number? It did for me to sign up.

[selykg]

Sorry, you don't need to use your phone number to contact someone. You can just give them your Telegram username. Which is sufficient for me in my use case for Telegram.