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Telegram beats Facebook Messenger and is almost tied with WhatsApp in total downloads.
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this post was submitted on 22 May 2022
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Telegram has Open Source clients, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger don't. That's progress.
Marginally "better", but not progress; like the US military going carbon neutral.
The ecosystem is still a walled garden subject to government pressures upon and whims of a single corporate entity.
It's not marginally better. It's objectively much better.
Having an open source client has huuuuge advantages. Here is one: I can download Telegram client from F-Droid, which reduces my dependency on Google Play Store.
Telegram is used by somewhere between half to a full billion people. It's impact on open source is massive.