Signal. This isn't even up for discussion.

Signal seems like an obvious choice over Telegram if privacy is the exclusive priority.

I do love Telegram tho for the ability to send full-quality photos/videos, log-on with 2+ phones simultaneously, visual customization, etc

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both require phone numbers, and both concentrate metadata in a central location (Amazon servers, in the case of signal).

both sort of pretend to be free open source software, and sort of are but with a lot of caveats.

telegram doesn't even have end-to-end encryption (except for some wacky not-peer-reviewed thing in 1:1 'secret chats' which are rarely used); at least signal has it beat there.

https://simplex.chat/ is a new messenger which doesn't have any of the above problems and seems quite promising imo.

Why make this post hard to search for by using an image, instead of directly asking which is more trustworthy between Telegram and Signal? It just makes it look like you're sharing an article link.
The question isn't even really relevant, you can mistrust Signal and still use it because it's made in such a way that even if the server operators were malicious, they could get little data out of you.
Telegram has secret chats and already having to "toggle-on" your privacy undermines the privacy of the whole application because your profile is partially clear to the service, which leaves it open to make various inferences on you

For people I don't know or just started talking, I give them my telegram username that's not linked to my personal phone number. For friends and family, I use signal.

Lots of opensource projects have telegram channels for updates. Not to mention news and local updates as well.

People need to incorporate a social aspect of the real world. Everyone isn't as privacy conscious as you are and you can have multiple apps for different scenarios.

If you don't ever want to meet anyone new, signal is perfect.

I wish we would move away from centralized messengers entirely. They are always just one law away from being banned. See: whatever the UK is doing.

Using signal but planning to switch. SimpleX and XMPP are my candidates.

I use Signal, it's about as private as I can get other normal people to use.

Signal is privacy focused Telegram is a privacy nightmare

Signal hands down

I ”trust” Signal the most because there is 100% transparency, I can look into the inner workings of the app and see what it does at all time.

Telegram is the best (in sense of privacy) message app you can actually manage to get your friends and family to use.

1. Session
2. XMPP with OMEMO
3. a Tox, if possible (no real asynch common)
4. Matrix
5. Signal

My friends are already on telegram, I don't have to force change. I can make any chat more secure from the start. I am not using massive government level secrets anyhow. I mean, security is nice, but my cat photos, bad code, homegrown mint tea, and plans for the beach this coming summer are hardly a top secret problem anyway, I'm not planning a murder, I just don't want meta or facebook using them for advertising. Telegram is good enough.

Signal if I had to choose but there are plenty of other options

I can generally convince people to use Telegram, but not signal. Telegram is better than SMS, GroupMe, WhatsApp, Discord, Facebook Messenger, SnapChat, etc so its what I use.

If anything, I've got hopes that Element/Matrix will get enough polish to become viable.

I would never trust telegram. The company behind it is mostly Russian scammers. I would use the opensource alternative to signal called Molly

One of those had an entire Ph.D thesis written on the topic of compromising the encryption used. The other did not. I use the latter.

SimpleX or Briar

1.- jami 2.- xmpp + omemo 3.- matrix 4.- signal

It's hard no one cares. Where I live everyone uses whatsapp, and unfortunately what comes closer, and still without enough users base is signal on my list, and it's the last. Jami is distributed, which makes it best in class, and there are good efforts trying to make it not to steal the whole battery, as opposed to briar. I which more people were interested on not using centralized stuff, not even what has been called lately decentralized, which means centralized but with several central points (only if everyone self hosts it would be decentralized, which is not the case). Currently I use Jami and signal, though I've tried all those, plus briar, plus tox, even telegram...

First choice is always talk on SimpleX, second is Signal/Molly for something easier, there is no other app that I use.

Default Signal is better although Telegram has Secret Chat. I love thar Telegram let's you use a username to connect to others without exposing your mobile number to contacts.

But I have way more friends who actually use Telegram than Signal. No idea why although for many the massive community groups are used by a lot communities for staying in touch, as well as safety/security groups in communities.

Resource: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/

I trust Signal more, but the main reason I use Signal is because a lot of people I know use it. I would personally love if Briar caught on more, but given that isn't really happening SimpleX is your best bet.

I prefer using telegram but in terms of privacy? Signal no discussions.