• Chris Ely@fosstodon.org
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    1 year ago

    > messages COULD potentially stay on their servers forever, unless they delete them after a certain period.

    If you receive a message and no devices are active to retrieve it, then yes it gets deleted from the server and is never decrypted or seen.

    This also means the sender never received the delivery confirmation, or the read confirmation for the message.

    @MacNCheezus