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If you have a mac in your house, you can install BlueBubbles on it and give yourself nearly full iMessage capabilities on any non-Apple device. AirMessage a a simpler but less featureful alternative. My wife and I have ours set up on a mac mini and can happily use any device we want without facing the ire of friends and family - as long as you add your email address instead of your phone number to conversations.
The issue with Telegram is that the important part that you want to be reproducible are actually the servers, since they're supposed to protect your messages, social graph, pictures, etc, and there's no way to verify it. On the other hand, the important part of Signal is the app itself, which is reproducible: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reproducible-builds/README.md