@blake @ulfi @delta Personally I have a strong desire for both privacy and sovereignty. Most of my chats are secure but don't really need to be. Better that they are, though. I want to be able to easily send people files and information securely and never wonder if there's a copy floating out there on a server I don't control.

And also just owning my data. I have a group chat with a couple friends that we have maintained for well over 10 years. There is an incredible amount of useful information in there spanning science, technology, politics, and finance. We migrated it to Telegram in 2019 and as of last month it's on DeltaChat.

My backup of that chat on Telegram was over 30GB and 250,000 messages. There's another chat we have specifically about finance and it was about half that size.

But at any time Telegram could decide to delete all history older than a couple months because it's too expensive to host for free. Now I have an option where I truly have full control of the data and server infra but get a clean modern chat UX across multiple devices and OSes. It's everything I wanted, and any missing pieces can be filled in later.