> it's not syncing between devices
> Signal is cooler
Clearly you haven't tried using Signal on multiple devices. It's terrible currently. Telegram / WhatsApp / etc work great on multiple devices.
> Signal is cooler
Clearly you haven't tried using Signal on multiple devices. It's terrible currently. Telegram / WhatsApp / etc work great on multiple devices.
Because all the really security focused apps insist on per-device private keys, so everything has to be re-encrypted by everyone per the other users' device. This mitigates key leakage problems to some extent, but also makes the UX as awful as you describe.
I don't understand why nobody (to my knowledge) has yet gone the middle route of having a private key per user. Sure, it's a bit less secure, but it's surely better than users preferring to use un(e2e)encrypted options instead?!
That's what Telegram actually does with their cloud encryption.