Wake up and do your due diligence. Signal was developed by a Twitter IT security guy and is pushed on others by Dorsey.
Telegram is also open source if that’s what floats yo9ur boat.
“All of Telegram’s official apps are open source. Telegram provides end-to-end encrypted calls and optional end-to-end encrypted “secret” chats between two online users on smartphone clients, whereas cloud chats use client-server/server-client encryption.”
And the last sentence is where Twitter gets you monitored, “cloud chats using client-server/server-client encryption.” They are playing you.
But here’s the kicker.
Twitter is a known weaponized political censor. Telegram is not.
I didn’t know Telegram was open source; great. My point is, if you know what you’re doing, the open source nature changes the game. You don’t have to run it on public servers, you can point all of the clients (android, apple) apps to your machine directly. I get that you hate twitter, I do as well. Open source is open source. It may be a different thing to download signal from android or apple but that’s now your only option. I’ll look into Telegram.
Just a quick look into Telegram and they use public API’s and not open source which is different and actually easier to send your data to a third party (not saying they are doing that but there isn’t really a way to know). Public APIs means that they let you use their services but you you can’t see the source code. This is closer to the ideas behind cloud than signal (just a quick look).