In general, I would avoid anything that steers their users into using a smartphone app. There is a lot of data collection going on there, and ethical companies have no excuse to not support the universal web browser. Signal is lower on my list for that reason, although it does seem to have better acceptance by non-tech people.
(May 17, 2021) Don't Use Telegram. Don't Use Telegram. Don't Use Telegram. Don't Use Telegram. Don't Use Telegram. | Luke Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBTsUVrCDAQ
A small minority has been telling the retards to stop using Telegram for quite awhile now.
The majority take convenience over privacy & security.
Use instead:
Element
Signal
Session
Jami
Jitsi
Briar
And several others here
https://www.privacytools.io/privacy-messaging/
In general, I would avoid anything that steers their users into using a smartphone app. There is a lot of data collection going on there, and ethical companies have no excuse to not support the universal web browser. Signal is lower on my list for that reason, although it does seem to have better acceptance by non-tech people.