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This repository has been notoriously bad at doing this: https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift

The clients wouldn't feature E2EE for groups even if you'd write your own server from scratch so no, nobody should use Telegram for anything.

Without server source? Might as well start from scratch and use something like matrix.

Matrix doesn't compare at all and Element is their client to promote their SaaS solution.