For messaging, I recommend Matrix.

For sailing on the high seas, I think I2P is good.

Don’t need an article to tell you that a service that requires private information (cell phone number) is not interested in your privacy.

please stop pirating using telegram, it’s a messaging service (with some elements of social media), not your cdn

this shit is run almost for free, from the money durov saved on his school lunches, using it as a cdn will break a good service for everyone, including the vast majority of people who just use it because it’s a good messaging service

they should go after the pedos and leave pirates alone

Telegram has never been a secure option as you’re granting the keys to your data to third party to the intended recipients. Your data is basically leaked by default to Telegram’s admins.

I would recommend Signal to replace SMS/MMS and Matrix for IRC/Discord/Telegram.