[egberts1]

I prefer privacy over anonymity, which is what Signal does best.

Only Signal leaves your message on their servers totally encrypted at-rest whose keys stays at your phone. No court order can ever hope to compel Signal what was said. The court will instead need one of the parties' phone for that, if it hasn't expire-deleted yet and doesn't have 9-alphanumeric characters or longer password length.

That cannot be said true of Telegram, WhatsApp, WeChat (that I've reversed engineered).