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Re:Thoughts on the Durov Arrest by lxgr on Thursday August 29, 2024 @11:31AM (#41391859)
> 1. Cloud Sync

Cloud Sync of what? WhatsApp doesn't seem any less "cloud synced" than Telegram to me.

> 2. Instant Multi-device login

What does that mean?

> 3. The ability to create large group chats, like thousands or hundreds of thousands of people in a single place.

MLS scales very well to such large groups: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9420/

> 4. Sending files up to 4GB.

How so? WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage and others all support sending files. File size isn't a factor (assuming you're fine with leaking the metadata of who has received the same file).

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