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by Zomatree 1743 days ago
The plan is to make DMs end to end encrypted.
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Be aware people will critique if only PM are only e2e, this is what people who uses Signal and WhatsApp downplay Telegram.
I'm one of those people, but for a discord alternative, I think it's a pretty fair trade off. My WhatsApp groups are mostly under 100 people while discord servers get much, much bigger. The only thing I feel like would be viable would be one shared encryption key for large rooms that just gets shared between the members via a resource-intensive diffie-helman-like message once and then after that everyone just uses the same key.
> The only thing I feel like would be viable would be one shared encryption key for large rooms that just gets shared between the members via a resource-intensive diffie-helman-like message once and then after that everyone just uses the same key.

I agree on that extent. I find Telegram on this grey area which people recommend it as an alternative to Signal or WhatsApp (these people ask for group e2e) and at the same time many communities use Telegram channels and groups as alternatives/complementary to Discord. An app as Telegram is not going to please the majority and maybe this could be the case for Revolt.

Is there a group of people who use WhatsApp who care about e2e encryption and hold it as the standard? Surely its common knowledge that you cannot trust the parent company of WhatsApp, or its encryption since being broken.
There are opinions, i am not sure if they are real people who care about e2e or just astroturfing from FB.