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.
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.
E2EE is prohibited by Telegram’s TOS (you can’t make any feature that requires users to use your client to access it).
I would strongly recommend
libaxolotl/OMEMO over OTR, far stronger algorithm.
Does it have tools to easily remove deleted accounts from groups? Or selecting several contacts from your contact list and deleting them? Because those are big features missing from telegram
I think you want a CLI client for that.
For the group thing, I would expect at least a way to search/filter those accounts while looking at the group’s participants, even if I do have to manually remove them. Having to endlessly scroll a list with no apparent order is not fun.
I’m not familiar with any clients that have the feature. Make that feature and a merge request yourself I guess.
