it's interesting that telegram keeps working on these increasingly complicated features but still hasn't shipped anything for improving secret chats / end-to-end encryption in a while

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stories make sense since they need to have full feature parity w whatsapp: https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1592576710247317504

they're moving away from phone #s according to some of their open source code

signal similar? shipping stories vs things like moving away from phone-based identity.

this is one of the primary reasons i left telegram

https://blog.borodutch.com/i-quit-telegram-heres-why/

yeah I would have expected them to "beat Signal" vs. the Discord competitor stuff

how big is the demand for such level of encryption? curious.

i hear it in the tech bubble, but no friends outside of tech seem to care around me.

I would be interested in what % of users are actually aware of whether chats are end to end encrypted. My guess: less than 5%

Even apps that advertise to support it sometimes require starting a special type of secret chat hidden in a menu somewhere

it's possible they don't see much activity in these chats and so a low-use feature gets a low priority.

I'd love a way to keep spammers from adding me to their groups