Both Telegram and Signal are decent, tho they require a phone number to sign up and are more similar to WhatsApp. Then there's Matrix, but it's like the fediverse, you must find or create and instance, they might find it complicated. Same for IRC.
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~~Signal no longer requires a phone number to sign up for.~~ Also telegram really should not be recommended at all if the focus is on privacy.
Update: I am wrong, signal does require a phone number.
Maybe try simplex as that doesn't require a phone number.
Good on Signal, but what's the problem with Telegram?
Telegram isn't encrypted end-to-end by default; apparently if you do encrypt e2e you can't access chats from multiple devices.
Signal's protocol is widely understood to be the gold standard for security, which is one reason it's been adopted for multiple messengers. Telegram has a bespoke protocol which is not as well regarded.