Note that OP didn't ask about open source.
I'll push back on that a bit for a couple reasons.
First, although @Techie Llama didn't say the words "open source" in the original post, every project they asked about specifically IS open source. It follows that they were interested in which of these open source options would be the best to go with, with the possibility that other open source projects of a similar nature might be an even better option. I'll let @Techie Llama confirm or deny whether they intended to be talking about messenger apps in general, or only privacy preserving open source messenger apps, though.
Second, regardless of whether @Techie Llama specified open source apps, I did. I specified that my statement about a larger user base likely implies more people would have reviewed the code only applies to open source apps. Even if I had not specified that I was talking about open source apps only when I made that statement, the context of the conversation should have made it obvious that open source apps were what was being discussed. @Techie Llama asked about 4 specific open source apps and asked "which one is recommended in terms of user base and UX?" Then, when you contended that user base does not matter when messaging someone you know, @Techie Llama mentioned two of those open source apps as examples of comparing a new and unproven app against one that has been around for years and built up a user base that trusts it, presumably without any instances where that trust was broken. Then, when I said that a larger user base likely has more eyes on the code, it should have been obvious that open source was what I was talking about, even if I hadn't specified that it was, because closed source wouldn't have anyone outside the paid dev team reviewing the code.
Heck, even the app you recommended, Delta Chat, is open source, so you clearly understood that no one here was talking about messaging apps in general, but only open source ones intended to preserve privacy.
First, although @Techie Llama didn't say the words "open source" in the original post, every project they asked about specifically IS open source. It follows that they were interested in which of these open source options would be the best to go with, with the possibility that other open source projects of a similar nature might be an even better option. I'll let @Techie Llama confirm or deny whether they intended to be talking about messenger apps in general, or only privacy preserving open source messenger apps, though.
Second, regardless of whether @Techie Llama specified open source apps, I did. I specified that my statement about a larger user base likely implies more people would have reviewed the code only applies to open source apps. Even if I had not specified that I was talking about open source apps only when I made that statement, the context of the conversation should have made it obvious that open source apps were what was being discussed. @Techie Llama asked about 4 specific open source apps and asked "which one is recommended in terms of user base and UX?" Then, when you contended that user base does not matter when messaging someone you know, @Techie Llama mentioned two of those open source apps as examples of comparing a new and unproven app against one that has been around for years and built up a user base that trusts it, presumably without any instances where that trust was broken. Then, when I said that a larger user base likely has more eyes on the code, it should have been obvious that open source was what I was talking about, even if I hadn't specified that it was, because closed source wouldn't have anyone outside the paid dev team reviewing the code.
Heck, even the app you recommended, Delta Chat, is open source, so you clearly understood that no one here was talking about messaging apps in general, but only open source ones intended to preserve privacy.
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