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by ymolodtsov 66 days ago
It's called iMessage. It's possible, Telegram just doesn't care. All their differentiating features (large groups, channels, device sync) is directly enabled by the lack of encryption.
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they do have encryption, just not e2ee, and in fairness to them, it doesn't make sense to have e2ee on a channel or a group with 100k ppl in it, also device sync is possible with e2ee, it's just a slower
you can have large groups and device sync WITH e2ee, see Matrix.
Any Matrix client I tried lagged even without chats though.