Comment by eitally

This really bugged me. I led adoption of Telegram as our family-internal standard chat tool several years ago because I was more anti-Zuck than I was concerned about backdoors or overt politicization of Telegram. Since the Ukraine war began, there has been literally no positive news about Telegram and Durov has become increasingly political (especially since his arrest in France) in his all-users blasts.

With the amount of known use of Telegram by unsavory actors, combined with Durov's own leveraging of his platform for activism, I've been using Whatsapp more and more lately, and don't feel bad about that.

I respect Signal, but it's missing too many product features and it doesn't have the reach Whatsapp does, so it's not compelling as a switching option at this point, even for family use.