Some people say it’s really privacy-giving and that you should use it as a privacy alternative. Others say it’s alao on the big tech side. What’s going on with telegram, really?

If it was impossible for the other side to read the content of the messages, I’d agree. Hence, why it is less problematic that Signals server software is closed source.

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There’s a FOSS version of signal called molly that’s opensource.

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That’s a signal client, not server. While I think there are reimplementations of the signal server that you can theoretically use, you’ll be bound to only communicating with people also connecting through that server (ie no federation)

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You are 100% correct.

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