Yes this is a Telegram client and yes it will break the Lemmy's downvote world record but I still find this one very nice and "actively" maintained. There are not many good Telegram FOSS forks without Google integrations and similar stuff out there.

  • dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    do any of these forks support E2EE? I don't mean the OG "private chat" thingy that Telegram supports.

    I mean like an add-on, the way pidgin had an OTR plugin that enabled private comms over Google's unencrypted XMPP servers.

    as a consequence, that would also encrypt everything in the cloud and prevent your chat history being ingested for LLM training and whatnot.

      • dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml
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        edit-2
        4 months ago

        well yeah, just a simple private/public key solution for encrypting chat and cloud. transfer your private key to a forked desktop app and access your encrypted chat history from there as well.

        just basic stuff, not something for people running from nation-state actors, but to prevent LLM ingestion and mass surveilance. but OP says that's against Telegram's ToS, so no dice here.

    • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      E2EE is prohibited by Telegram's TOS (you can't make any feature that requires users to use your client to access it).