“When you use Signal, your data is stored in encrypted form on your devices. The only information that is stored on the Signal servers for each account is the phone number you registered with, the date and time you joined the service, and the date you last logged on.”
This isn’t an ad, I wasn’t paid for this post. Just to clear the air: fuck facebook, fuck elon musk and twitter, fuck anyone who thinks this is a paid advertisement. I wish I was paid for this shit, I just wanted to spread the word. Thank you. 😀 👍
Personally, Telegram is my favourite one. Feature complete, a ton of convenience features as well, totally secure if you want it instead of cloud storage etc
For those unaware and who might care:
Telegram, by default, stores all your messages in a way that’s viewable by anyone with admin rights to their infrastructure - like using Facebook. Some may not care, but it’s important to understand that that data is there, being collected and could be used against you (or sold to others) in the future.
If you care about data privacy, you should use a platform that defaults and doesn’t let you opt out of end to end encryption.
I find telegram super odd. Especially the publicly searchable groups for something that’s supposed to be secure and how the first things that come up when I search my city is groups selling heroin.
But that’s an option for the groups and channels because it serves as a public space to chat as well