#deltachat

Jeder Messenger hat seine Fans – aber manche Communitys sind echt anstrengend. Die größten Missionare findet man mit Abstand bei Threema, dicht gefolgt von Delta Chat. Kritik? Undenkbar. Da wird sofort erklärt, warum du das Problem bist.

Aber hey, sollen sie ruhig über mich herziehen – die kostenlose Werbung nehm ich doch gern mit. Wenn sie sich schon aufopfern, um meinen Namen in ihren Filterblasen zu verbreiten, will ich da nicht im Weg stehen. 😁

#messenger #threema #deltachat

The trajectory of E2E-encryption is about de-platforming: There shall be no central machines that can control the edges/peers, and the social groups and virtual centers they freely form.

Our #deltachat R&D around #chatmail relays and #webxdc apps all aim to realize such a "zero-platforms" fully E2E-encrypted interaction model. However, this is *not* just about cryptographic cleverness. Rather it is about usable anti-authoritarian designs, as explicitly stated in January https://delta.chat/en/2025-01-23-webxdc-no-billionaires

Messenger: Delta Chat

Obwohl es mehr als genug Messenger gibt, überzeugt Delta Chat durch Benutzerfreundlichkeit und erprobte Technik.

#Messenger #Delta_Chat #IMAP #GPG #E_Mail #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/messenger-delta-chat

Easter/April offer 🐣 if you are onboarding a small group of family/friends to #deltachat and/or want to setup a insta-federated #chatmail relay let us know about any issues. Just post on fediverse and tag us. In case of bugs/issues we'll see to privately set up a support chat to help sort out any issues, or file accordingly to our development tracker. We want Delta to work flawlessly for private chatting and to better understand any remaining irritations or problems. Thanks and enjoy :)

If you are using #deltachat with a #chatmail profile with private contacts there is no chance you are going to get spam. Why?

1) Spammers can't contact you based on your phone number like with other messengers.

2) Nobody knows your private address or cryptographic key except your contacts. Without that spammers/phishers can't contact you.

3) if joining a public group with unknown members better use a second chat profile which you can mute/remove as needed.

Privacy and peace of mind.

One week ago we migrated 21 people from Matrix to @delta and it has been a pretty good experience.

Not everything is working flawlessly but that also wasn’t expect. Plus we didn’t do a lot of debugging so I cannot rule out user error yet.

All 21 users are happy about the change. #deltachat

https://www.screamingatmyscreen.com/one-week-with-delta-chat/

#deltachat is geared and optimized for private messaging even though it's successfully used for 100+ people chats as well. Doing large scale chats has two challenges:

- implementing scalable encryption so increased number of recipients does not increase message size/cpu cost for the sender

- grow good moderation tooling because public channels/chats invite a lot of spam, unwanted stuff

For large chats today we recommend to control who joins, and maybe use a separate chat profile.

#DeltaChat is so much better than Signal when it comes to hardware support. Get this: when setting up a new phone I lose access to previous conversations and media DESPITE having a synced desktop app. Why?

Well in Signal your desktop client is not a real client! Switching hardware with #DeltaChat was quick, easy and successful. Every client is real.👍

Signal:😖

I do wonder why they fail so hard there, as they generally have things figured out, too.

#openpgp traditions and #signal both bind a cleartext identifier, phone number or email address, to a cryptographic key. It opens up attack vectors as the servers/orgs controlling this binding can interfere.

#deltachat avoids such cleartext identity bindings by creating random #chatmail addresses, as transport only. The cryptographic key becomes the identifier and we want it hidden from the transport layer. Only people being in end-to-end encrypted chat need to identify each other, after all.

We are testing #deltachat with 8 users since Friday with a self hosted server.

The experience is excellent and people are happy, especially with secondary device setup.

So far we ran into a few small issues.

- one user had pushes on one device delayed (its push. Remember apples guarantees on delivery…)
- a gif didn’t post but only the first frame (iOS)
- taking a photo doesn’t add it to the message, using the gallery works (Android)