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Föderation EN Fr 14.03.2025 11:03:14

Having lots of fun using Delta Chat. I've set up two accounts on my mail server, one for myself and one for my husband. We're both surprised at how fast it is compared to more traditional centralised chat apps like Signal. It's so cool to be able to self-host this and not rely on centralised infrastructure that is outside of my control.

Now I just need to convince everyone I know it's really cool :)

@delta

Föderation EN Fr 14.03.2025 13:38:26

@gmc great and welcome :) did you try out the v86 app in a chat yet? It allows to run 32bit iso images, and if you configure eth0 on multiple devices the chat members will have an end-to-end encrypted private lan (using realtime channels). Telnet/netcat/ping etc works. This virtual Ethernet even degrades in performance if too many devices do traffic :) tip: try it better on a desktop not mobile (although should also work)

Föderation EN Fr 14.03.2025 16:47:45

@delta @gmc Do you have an article about this on your site somewhere? I'm not quite sure I grok what you mean.

Föderation EN Fr 14.03.2025 17:02:52

@RandamuMaki @gmc no bigger write up, but if you have a desktop:

Go to message input, attach-app and select "v86 emu" app and start it.

Inside v86 app "Choose file", select an iso (download for example dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/) and hit "Start" button. Login as "Root", no password.

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Föderation EN Fr 14.03.2025 17:11:10

@delta @gmc Weirdly enough that seems to be missing from the .deb version or I'm just ignorant. XD It's fine. It's enough to know it exists for some. :)

Föderation EN Fr 14.03.2025 17:34:16

@delta @gmc That one broke on Debian 12.9 (Bookworm). I can't quite figure out why.

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Föderation EN Fr 14.03.2025 17:51:40

@RandamuMaki @gmc hum, that's odd. Could you open an github.com/deltachat/deltachat or on support.delta.chat ? cheers and thanks.

Föderation EN Fr 14.03.2025 17:53:31

@delta @gmc Won't use github since it's owned by M$ and the other support page claims @palemoon is not supported.

Föderation DE Fr 14.03.2025 17:57:41

@delta Are there any accounts to test DeltaChat?

Föderation EN Fr 14.03.2025 18:07:43

@hiker every App allows to create anonymous chat profiles on servers. Just hit "create profile"

Föderation EN Fr 14.03.2025 19:40:44

@delta @gmc Wahey, I got the flatpak to work. No more errors.