You would think that accomplishing a simple task, such as communicating with others using text, would be straightforward, well, it can be. Backstory I used WhatsApp for all my messaging for a very long time since that was pretty much the de facto in the area I live. Then the accusations on WhatsApp came a couple of years back, and I decided to look into alternatives, settling on Telegram because I liked their approach to open-source clients and overall feature set.