I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.
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Just stop using the spyware ones?
That leaves you with element, signal and telegram?
Oh, where to begin. Telegram is wild. It may not be spyware in the traditional sense, but they've already handed over data to the Indian government, left a telephone number scraping vulnerability open for the Iranian government, and gotten caught with "the most backdoor looking bug" with their unwisely handmade encryption algorithm.
Okay just element and signal then?
In the meme, yeah. There are others though:
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/
SimpleX looks neat.