Many in the crypto and privacy community mistakenly trust Telegram because it’s “end to end encrypted”, but there are huge issues including not hiding the metadata, censorship, centralization, and phone numbers.
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    • @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
      2•11 months ago
      • Huge resource usage by clients
      • Huge sync times (not just first time, but also if the client was offline for a few weeks)
      • New room members in encrypted rooms can’t read old messages even if you have set it up that way

      Fortunately they are working on all of these, and as I just found out recently, they also have an alpha version app now that makes use of the new efficient sync, which I expect to fix 2 of the above (the resource usage is partly because of how sync works now)