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For me there 2 are in different leagues. Telegram is not end to end encryption so it cannot replace Signal/Whatsapp. Perfect for various bots, discord/IRC replacement, but not Signal or Whatsapp.

e2e encryption comes at a cost of usability, and in Telegram it does exist since day 1, I think, you only need to explicitly start e2e-encrypted chats

Again, I'm very long time telegram user, since ~2015 when I learned about github.com/telegramdesk... 😀 Telegram does a lot of things right - UX, native clients, animations, top quality work. It's just NOT signal or WhatsApp replacement for any of my private chats. Great for bots, groups.

I’ve tried to find a cross platform messaging and calling app for the kids to use, and Telegram actually came pretty close to being a good option because I didn’t find any feed of random content in it. It fell on that you need to pay to be able to limit who can contact you.

Signal is much, much better choice for this. Telegram has a lot of random content.

Bah. The search isn’t visible by default, so I never even realized it existed. Made me think you had to be linked into channels.

And even then The spam still comes through.. and kids can search unrestricted for certain materials you may not want them to get. Try it.

Yup, found the search now. 🤦‍♂️

What sort of spam? For example, I'm being added to groups without permission sometimes, but it's only because I didn't disallow that in the privacy settings (I'm fine with opting out). Spam in groups can be handled with spam watching bots. Other than that, I'm not seeing spam in Telegram.