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The only thing that bothers me more than the homebrew crypto is their claims of security. False sense of security is worse than no security.

No one has cracked it, specially in the time they offered a $300.000 prize.

So far Telegram has done everything right. They have awesome native apps on all the platforms, no stupid web-wrappers that are slow and buggy. I haven't had a single bug, it's always been extremely fast and reliable. This is what makes a truly great user experience.

it would be great if open source solutions like Telegram, Signal and Matrix (and others) would all interoperate. I work on Matrix (https://matrix,.org) but I don't really care which client you want to use - as long as we can still talk to each other!

I recommend it just because it has questionable crypto, to feed at least some data into Russia and not only to USA. Just to not have only one unchallenged world surveillance power.