Signal is an unfeasible alternative to Telegram or any other cloud based messenger while it remains all local storage-only. Do you really want to be forced to keep all the furry stickers people use etc. in your constrained local storage you can't expand easily?
@Sominemo this sounds pretty bad but personally i haven't had too much a bad experience? like yes, for me signal does take up about like 7-10gb of storage, but i have it set to keep stuff for about 6 months which makes it not really much a big deal. although i understand not everyone has phones with large storage (considering i have a pixel 6a with 128gb of storage)
also considering that signal is actually e2ee unlike telegram which advertises that it is but requires you to manually enable it like another chatroom, so i think its a pretty good tradeoff :catcar:
@sneexy yeah, that's kinda the point, that I don't want to remove my old conversations in favor of e2ee. I don't talk about anything so confidential all the time (or at all) that I wouldn't want the service provider to see the contents.
If E2EE is a must, Signal could come with some sort of personal cloud solution tho, that would allow Signal to store large amounts of data encrypted in a cloud or a NAS you point it to and it would pull data partially on demand.
@Sominemo that's fair, although i do believe its possible to take automatic chat backups. no idea if it's possible to actually manually open them and look through them, i should check that
@sneexy automatic chat backups is not the same as pulling data from cloud partially, backup still forces you to keep a full image of your chat data locally, it seems.
Also in my experience, backups just fail silently in the background sometimes and you learn that you lost your chats only post factum. That wasn't with Signal I believe tho, just a bad experience.
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