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There are so many encrypted messaging apps now but none has the feature-parity and convenience of Telegram. The user experience is just unparallel, and it is qu

There are so many encrypted messaging apps now but none has the feature-parity and convenience of Telegram. The user experience is just unparallel, and it is quite astonishing to see so high-quality software being produced by an actual company these days. However, there are a couple of drawbacks of Telegram which are seriously important to consider - no self-hostable server option (of course they don't have a federated model so interoperability will not be easy even if they release the server source). - the encryption protocol is non-standard, does not sync between devices, and is not enabled by default. I would really love it if there is a client-side encryption app which uses established time-tested encryption protocol to encrypt and decrypt messages fully at client side and will just let me use something heavily feature-rich like Telegram for sending the messages.

gaius_baltar 5y ago
> There are so many encrypted messaging apps now but none has the feature-parity and convenience of Telegram. Perhaps because Telegram's servers store and have access to the entire message history (except for secret chats, that are very limited in features compared with both Signal and WhatsApp), and this really helps a lot when synchronizing among devices and managing groups -- all at cost of security and privacy. They also can selectively remove groups, and recently did it, so there is not a theoretical problem anymore. Remember: they have all the information and can use it for anything once they turn evil (I call it "being bitten by a radioactive Zuckerberg").