[NoraCodes]

> end-to-end encryption has never been shown to work in a real system with normal people

I would argue that Signal is a great example of this working quite well, and tons of normal people use Signal. It's no more frictional than WhatsApp.

[apitman]

Signal is a promising example, but ephemeral messaging is a very different use case from things like photo management.

[ants_everywhere]

Signal has a lot of problems with changing devices while preserving history. As in it's often just impossible.

[mrd3v0]

Are you aware of this https://signal.org/blog/a-synchronized-start-for-linked-devi...

[ants_everywhere]

I think so, this looks like the feature where adding an new linked device transfers messages from your phone.

What still isn't possible as far as I am aware is transferring messages from Android to iOS or vice versa. Last time I looked into this was a few weeks ago.