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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by xrisk on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:22AM (#19387903)
I used Signal and my main qualm with it is that messages don’t sync between platforms and also the phone app is nowhere as good as Telegram’s.
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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by rplnt on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:38AM (#19387989)
Well, if it would sync, it's not private. Unless the app allows you to sync the keys offline. Telegram doesn't sync either if you enable e2e encryption.

But I agree that Telegram apps are great. Both Android ones, and the desktop ones as well. Small, fast, reliable, great UX.

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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by ytjohn on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:59AM (#19388404)
Wire does E2E and sync. Each device has its own key though.

https://wire.com/en/blog/key-verification-secure-conversatio...

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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by ymolodtsov on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:57AM (#19388086)
iMessage is one of the few both E2E and cloud-synced messengers, but it's iOS only.
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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by snaky on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:35AM (#19388274)
> Unless the app allows you to sync the keys offline

And why wouldn't the app allow it?

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