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Re:Telegram vs. Signal vs. Status – The Secure Messaging App... by yza on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @11:38AM (#22935907)
> At this point, the Telegram and Signal desktop clients are fairly basic

This is not true.

While I would never trust Telegram with sensitive data, their desktop client is by far the best IM desktop client I have ever tried. It's feature rich, native and beats Slack, Teams and any of the web/electron based clients.

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Re:Telegram vs. Signal vs. Status – The Secure Messaging App... by RMPR on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @11:46AM (#22935991)
The changelogs show an almost feature parity between the desktop https://desktop.telegram.org/changelog and the mobile https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/HEA... which lead me to think that whoever wrote this article didn't make the right amount of research.
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Re:Telegram vs. Signal vs. Status – The Secure Messaging App... by lozf on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @01:33PM (#22937154)
The Telegram Desktop client is definitely better than others, but it doesn't support E2EE, which is a deal breaker for many.

I (and many others) like Telegram for non-sensitive group chats accessible on mobile, laptop or desktop. But when encryption matters, those chats stay on Signal.

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