1) The consensus of the infosec community is that Telegram is significantly less secure than @SignalApp.
2) Signal is an independent non-profit with a $50m endowmentβthey can't be meaningfully influenced by money for a very long time. Telegram is a standard private company. t.co/d6nskMRxyP
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Unknown parent • •A federated version would need to rewrite part of the server for federation, it wouldn't be able to use the official client and it wouldn't be able to talk with the users on the official server.
Or one can use xmpp with omemo (the same encryption of signal), which is already there.
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