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by maqp 1800 days ago
> What I don't want is everyone in the school parents group to know my personal phone number thank you very much.

The usernames are in the works.

>I don't care if the chat is encrypted or not, if some malicious actor intercepts our plans for the bake-sale I think we can live with the consequences.

Perhaps double check which historical figure said "you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide".

Sure, you have nothing to hide, but don't expect others to not have anything to hide either. And realize when you're only reachable over Telegram, that forces other people to reach you over Telegram.

>What we wanted was feature parity (moderation and bots).

That's totally understandable, apps like Signal do support both however. The way I see it, is Telegram's TLS equivalent group encryption is like upgrading your 1988 IRC to 1995 Telegram. That's how old client-server encryption is. E2EE for 1:1 IMs are introduced by OTR in 2004, and roughly 2013, we get E2EE group chats with Signal.

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>> What we wanted was feature parity (moderation and bots). > That's totally understandable, apps like Signal do support both however.

Does Signal have a bot API, where? Like an API specifically to create utility bots for Signal, not a client API that can be used/exploited to create bot-like users?