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Of course. Telegram seems to be the clear winner here at convincing the masses to move off of WhatsApp and have them stick around in Telegram. 700M tells us that it is a viable alternative for many users.

Signal on the other hand seems to have failed to stick with the rest of the users and instead of trying to attract users from WhatsApp, not only they can't get backing up messages working properly, they instead were focused on introducing a scam cryptocurrency and wallet only usable on their app that no-one wants, and probably scared everyone off.

Perhaps Signal is only good for getting users to keep using WhatsApp or Telegram, since there are too many missing basic features that the end users keep complaining about when trying it out.



The main thing keeping me from using Signal is that their Linux client is really really bad. In contrast Telegram has a great Linux client.




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