• voxel@sopuli.xyz
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          1 year ago

          yeah there’s a tradeoff. it’s either server-encrypted with your “cloud password” or e2e encrypted in which case you lose chat sync.
          like you’re supposed to use non-e2e chats for regular conversations, and encrypted ones for anything even remotely sensitive

          audio/video calls are always encrypted.

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              yeah they can do sync but it’s rather janky and requires both devices to be on.
              there are some advantages to telegram’s cloud chat system, even though it’s much less secure.

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                1 year ago

                They don’t though. Only WhatsApp does. The other ones don’t require both devices to be on.

                Also it’s not janky at all (with the exception of WhatsApp)

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      1 year ago

      To be fair, WhatsApp hasn’t had any serious feature development up until the last year or so, so as far as features go, they’re playing catch-up.

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      1 year ago

      Not to be a dick, but Telegram (as much as I love it) has had a terrible Video Chat experience. The overall quality is heavy… And it’s buggy.

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          1 year ago

          That’s… weird… Windows Desktop and Android. The audio quality fluctuates alot.

          Compared to the same hardware on Meet, the quality fluctuates a lot on Telegram.

          To be fair, it’s been over 4 months since I last used it. Let’s see.