If I HAD to use one, which one would be better? While Whatsapp is owned by Facebook, they have end to end encryption for the messages, while the metadata is not. However, on Telegram, nothing is end to end encrypted unless you use a secret chat which most regular people are most likely not going to use. I have a feeling Whatsapp would be better but I wanted to hear your thoughts.
I would never use WhatsApp since it’s associated with Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg which is the creepiest (celebrity) human alive I belive. If him and Elon Musk had a baby, it’s over for humanity.
Anyway, I use telegram now but was impressed by Element when I tried it. It’s a client for Matrix and it’s both live chat in public channels and private conversions in one app. Also I love that it’s matrix underneath the good looking surface.
I like Element a lot, but my friend group has decided we aren’t moving from Telegram for text and self hosted Teamspeak for voice until a single self hosted solution can do both just as well (or at least close enough).
Sadly, Element’s voice features aren’t there yet.