Sessions is better than both of them. Try XMPP.
I don’t know how much of this is directed by Kremlin. Maybe Signal is catching ground in Russia’s neighborhoods? The government-backed Telegram is losing users to Signal, maybe? Russia would want to spy on such users.
The HN discussion seems to be plagued by pretty uninformed positions.
“There is no Signal fork on F-Droid”
Molly (Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal) https://f-droid.org/packages/im.molly.app/
“Telegram is privacy-focussed”
E2e chats have to be created by long-pressing on a contact and then choosing a menu option. The default tap starts normal e2s chats. Group chats are e2s as well.
Well, that’s stupid. I used the F-Droid share feature. Here is a working one https://molly.im/download/fdroid/
I hate Twitter so much. Unless you’re logged in, you can’t even read threads anymore (unless you happen to know each individual tweet URL).
What I meant to say: Is there another source?
[Edit: the HN comments have a link to a working Nitter instance. https://nitter.poast.org/matthew_d_green/status/1789687898863792453 ]