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Re:Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messa... by jesterson on Friday May 08, 2026 @10:06PM (#48071031)
How is it "objectively worse"?
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Re:Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messa... by samizdette on Friday May 08, 2026 @11:00PM (#48071383)
I guess because it is harder to back up and recover and harder to sync between devices. Signal has made a lot of progress on those though.
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Re:Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messa... by jezzamon on Saturday May 09, 2026 @01:34AM (#48072102)
Main thing that comes to mind is things like this:

- If you lose you phone you lose your messages

- If you forget your password you lose your messages

- If you switch phone you often lose messages

- If you get added to a group you can't see the previous messages

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Re:Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messa... by jesterson on Saturday May 09, 2026 @01:39AM (#48072120)
> - If you forget your password you lose your messages

This shouldn't be the case right? As password isn't related to the key messages are encrypted with.

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Re:Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messa... by traderj0e on Saturday May 09, 2026 @03:11AM (#48072640)
It should be, otherwise where is that key coming from?
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