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>Service runs its own server

They mean it as "the service provider operates and runs all servers, and there are no cloud or hosting services (such as Amazon AWS or Google Cloud) involved"

I'm not sure if it's really an advantage or a weakness.

Telegram runs both own and hosted servers, and also allows volunteers to host relaying proxies to circumvent censorship.

I have to correct myself, Pavel Durov has stated they use only their own cloud infrastructure: https://t.me/durovschat/544164

> Telegram uses own servers

Is there any official documentation about this? I checked, and could only find a note about their servers in the EU (Netherlands).

I believe this is saying that they run it on hardware that they own rather than a cloud provider.

However if they have good e2e encryption this should be a very minor benefit as I'm not trusting the operator anyways.

How are any of the others violating GDPR?

Same question. Especially relating to Signal