Knowing what a privacy nightmare all meta apps are, I’m wondering if there is an alternative option which is more privacy friendly but still has some of the ease and simplicity of some features such as messenger.
I already know there will be friends I can’t convince and thats fine, I may just have to accept that. But if I could avoid using it as much, I’d really like to.
Telegram is Russian spyware and has no security whatsoever by default.
Signal is good. Matrix is good.
*has no end-to-end encryption by default.
Also, they used to really suck at encryption back in the days, and haven’t really earned my trust back.
… and no encryption of groups.
It’s a huge Russian psy-op where they pretended Durov had to go into exile while he in reality cooperated with the regime.
I fully agree, but I would be extremely surprised if they didn’t have transport encryption. Just no E2E, meaning that anyone who can get access to or impersonate the servers can read all your messages.