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> the company, which only has about 50 full-time employees

I’ve not seen a company of this size (in this space) really add features at the pace Telegram has been doing for several years. Except for the lack of end-to-end encryption in personal chats by default (and the lack of E2EE for group chats altogether), it’s a fantastic platform for chat. No other platform comes close to it on features and speed. The rest of them have been and continue to be years behind.

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What do you mean by no E2EE in personal chats?

By default there's no encryption and in order to have an encrypted chat you need to initialize it manually from the contact menu and IIRC it's not available on desktop - you won't initialize it from PC nor it will be synchronized with

It's available for desktop MacOS FWIW

GP here. I said by default it’s not there. There’s the “secret chats” feature that is E2EE, but it has to be explicitly chosen by the user. The default chats are stored on Telegram’s servers in a way Telegram can decrypt those. Secret chats are also tied to a single device. There is no “secret chat”/E2EE available for group chats, unlike in Signal.

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