It's simply the best messenger in terms of UX, it's super lightweight, fast and reliable. There's no second best for cross-platform use either, easily the best desktop messenger.

It even works better than native SMS over dodgy connections, I have no idea how that's possible. Pavel is elite and is/was very hands on as a technical founder.

This all carries over into making bots more useful and easy to implement. That said, the only bot I use is my own service monitor alerts. Idk what toys people are playing with.

Sadly there has been some regression on notifications since Pavel got detained in France about a year ago, they went from perfect to average, which is a bummer.

It's not a privacy tool to be clear, but since most people are already using keylogged phones and operating systems with hot mics I don't think that matters