KeeJef wrote on January 15, 2021 at 2:38 AM (edited on January 15, 2021 at 2:42 AM)

You might want to consider Session too if you are worried about big tech, Signal and Telegram servers are hosted on AWS and Azure respectively.Session doesnt have centralized servers https://getsession.org/

mr4channer wrote on January 15, 2021 at 7:40 AM

every should switch to xmpp/jabber but signal and telegram are normie friendly.

eeqrhty wrote on January 18, 2021 at 2:21 AM

Ricochet is an interesting project too. It also doesn't have centralized servers. It routes messages through the tor network.

https://ricochet.im/

The developers aren't giving guarantees about it though. From the website:

Ricochet is an experiment. Security and anonymity are difficult topics, and you >should carefully evaluate your risks and exposure with any software.

We’re working on auditing, reviewing, and always improving Ricochet (and we’d >love more help). There will be problems. We hope to do better than most, but >please, don’t risk your safety any more than necessary.