For messaging, I recommend Matrix.
For sailing on the high seas, I think I2P is good.
Don't need an article to tell you that a service that requires private information (cell phone number) is not interested in your privacy.
Telegram has never been a secure option as you're granting the keys to your data to third party to the intended recipients. Your data is basically leaked by default to Telegram's admins.
I would recommend Signal to replace SMS/MMS and Matrix for IRC/Discord/Telegram.
Matrix and IRC can exist at the same time tho.
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/why_not_signal.md
I'd also add Jami to the recommended list, even though it is a bit buggy.
Nobody uses Jami, XMPP and Matrix are whole lot better. IRC has a massive userbade.
Telegram is a public forum first, messenger second. Signal is just a 1-1 messenger (with group function as extra) and not a public forum. I can equate Whatsapp to Twitter, by this logic. People use this BS logic everytime for some reason.
they should go after the pedos and leave pirates alone
please stop pirating using telegram, it's a messaging service (with some elements of social media), not your cdn
this shit is run almost for free, from the money durov saved on his school lunches, using it as a cdn will break a good service for everyone, including the vast majority of people who just use it because it's a good messaging service
Welcome to /c/piracy
No netflix or streaming services landlubbers allowed, this is pirates territory.