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Somehow it has public groups and requires your phone number. Not really sure how to find the groups though.
But unlike Signal, nobody can see your number
You can hide your phone number now with the release of usernames in Signal. Still need it for registration tho.
When you can't use secret chat at ALL on desktop, fuck no it isn't.
Assuming end-to-end encryption is what's meant in the question.
That's a step backwards from Whatsapp lol
It's still shit tho. Signal is better.
As is Sessions
You can with Pidgin and purple-tdlib plugin for Telegram.
But then I'd ask the other person to use the same thing, and we'd both use OTR for encryption, not TG's bogus E2EE.
wow I haven't used Pidgin in like a decade