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Comment by Dalewyn

1 year ago

>It's the only messaging app where messages are stored on the cloud.

So do all the others with the exception of something like IRC.

Not really. WhatsApp only keep them temporarily (and E2EE!) until they're delivered to each device. Signal too. Telegram keeps everything for all time. Which is kinda handy too I have to say.

Of course you can send your backup to Google for WhatsApp and signal but that's optional. You can keep it locally too. And it's encrypted too. With WhatsApp you can even choose to keep the key locally only.