[skyyler]

>It's why you are able to just login to your Telegram account on another device and magically get all of your message history.

Secret chats are secure, and you cannot access them except on the device you start them with. It's one of the pain points for people that use them: they don't sync like normal chats.

[palata]

You just said it yourself: "normal chats are not end-to-end encrypted". The normality on Telegram is messages that their servers can read.

[skyyler]

Telegram's secure chats do not sync across devices. A secret chat is one device to one other device. If you start one on your phone, you won't even see that it exists on your laptop or tablet.

Secret chats by default wouldn't make sense for telegram. It's not a secure messages app anymore... It's a social media platform with a secure chat feature.

[palata]

Exactly: it's not a secure messenger. It has an option of secret chats which is not as private as Signal.

If you want privacy, use Signal. If you want UX, use Telegram. Just don't pretend Telegram is private. Both are fine, but people need to know what they are doing.

[skyyler]

Telegram isn't private. Its secret chats are.