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Telegram is an extreme security risk for its users, its developers and operators, holding data and metadata for over a billion people on central servers!

Our decentralized zero-metadata messaging approach is diametrically opposed to such big-platform designs delta.chat/en/2026-03-31-zero

But there is more: #chatmail relays are zero-state: you can wipe the relay's disks, create a new fresh setup, and users just continue chatting. Operators have actually done this. An *actually* state-less server :)


Delta Chat: Zero metadata, group descriptions, native audio/video calls and much more!

With the latest 2.48+ releases, a chat message reveals close to zero metadata to servers. For cryptographers and messenger enthusiasts, here are the key points on how we turned email very close to ...
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Michael Vilain
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Luckily the only thing I used Telegram for was to send me a link to download F-Droid.
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Bjornsdottirs
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wouldn't that be state-optional technically?
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@bjornsdottirs maybe! or "ephemeral-state-only" or "automatic state-loss recoverability"? When we get to do a full architecture/security doc, we will need to refine terminology , for sure.
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amazing work! delta chat works incredibly well on my non-touch sonim X320. I really hope that keeping the chat client working with non-touch devices is seen as an accessibility feature. Since the latest release it actually fixed some of the issues I had without touch screen. I'll send a small donation, and I recommend delta chat to all of my friends.
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I used Delta Chat since it's invention, but I just deinstalled it, since I gave up hope for it to get an option to prevent others deleting messages on *my* devices!!! The other thing that prevented adoption at least for group chats is that there can't be firm admins for groups. There's great work in Delta Chat & it made huge progress over the years, but forcing remote message deletion & unlimited editing onto all users is an absolute no-go.
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@STP_KITT We actually also got a lot of people being thankful that they could remove messages they had sent to the wrong chat, sometimes with sensitive info. See also typing.com/br/articles/making-…

As to editing one's own messages, we didn't hear many complaints although in theory it could be problematic. Mostly it's used for typo-fixing and fixing some grammatical nonsense, or some inline web-link. #deltachat is meant for usage with somewhat trusted people, not unknown people who try to trick you.

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