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Re:Apple reportedly dropped plan for encrypting backups afte... by the_duke on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:36AM (#25778417)
Related to this, it seems FB sort of panicked with the recent Signal exodus.

The app demanded cloud backups from me 8 times over 2 or 3 days.

Presumably so that returning users still have their messages intact.

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Re:Apple reportedly dropped plan for encrypting backups afte... by randomdude402 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:58PM (#25786846)
Telegram sent out a message yesterday saying that they have gained 25 million users in the last 72 hours alone, pushing their total user count to 500 million.

I suspect Signal took a somewhat smaller number of users from FB than this.

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