WhatsApp is please, please trust me bro

Telegram is "I was taken hostage by Macron, but I didn't agree to collaborate, he just randomly let me go". And it syncs between multiple devices, saving in the cloud. Signal is, as you say, "trust me bro". Content likely secure, metadata... depends how much we want to trust. Simplex, now, simplex...

Literally inverted, how do you even get the confidence to assert this as fact?

Fedegram is "just trust is bro", Signal is Slightly less "just trust us bro". White Noise, Bitchat, and NOSTR are the only "don't trust, verify" privacy chats.

https://whonix.org/wiki/Telegram https://rys.io/en/179.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1789687898863792453.html

Both are centralised and need a phone number which, for most people, links to their identity. Unlike Signal, Telegram chats and calls are not end-to-end encrypted by default. Even Telegram does not claim that.