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Re:Signal Introduces Stories by izacus on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:23AM (#33517758)
The backups on Android are near useless as well - they expect users to remember and save a massively long string of numbers (that are pre-generated, so they can't even choose a password they remember) and then they only do backup manually and onto device storage where it'll be gone together with everything else on the device if it breaks or dies.

Getting that backup off the device is yet another manual process for most users they need to think about.

Compare this to Telegram: user doesn't have to do anything.

Compare this to iMessage: user doesn't have to do anything.

Compare this to WhatsApp: user just needs to click agree.

The last two even save backups in an E2E encrypted fashion unreadable by servers.

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Re:Signal Introduces Stories by codethief on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @08:29AM (#33518707)
That was not my question.

In any case, I actually prefer it the way Signal does because

1) I don't have to sign up for / rely on a cloud provider,

2) if need be, I can decrypt the backup on my own and export it to some other format.

> then they only do backup manually

Wrong. The backup can be done automatically (i.e. every day).

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