@ploum I am at team #deltachat because chat is just mail but faster.

While #cloudflare US-east1 is busy fixing a good part of the Internet, parts of Matrix/Element, X etc down, good old decentralized #chatmail continues unimpeded and without degradation :)

In other news, there is a new #freebsd community maintained ❤️ #deltachat desktop install:

pkg install deltachat-desktop

thanks @feld and others!

@delta

Hi, can you help:
It seems that #deltachat notification system goes to "sleep" from time to time in android (Google Pixel 6a) so that I don't receive push notifications until I open the app. I haven't yet figured out the mechanism in this problem. I have set notification priority to max. It seems that I need to activate Background Connection from notification settings for things to work. But it shouldn't be necessary nowadays since Google push notifications should do the trick..?

next #ArcaneChat (and #DeltaChat) releases will have support for #RFC 9788 (Header Protection for Cryptographically Protected Email)

probably they will be one of the first email clients to support it, how cool is that?

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9788.html

Hice un vídeo para que puedas enviárselo a tus personas cercanas, explicando lo fácil que es dejar #WhatsApp, y por qué es importante hacerlo. 💬

https://fediverse.tv/w/35Lvufq1XW8ZVBTptzYMDS (@ivangj@fediverse.tv)
También disponible en YouTube por si quieres evitar rozamientos 😅.

#SoftwareLibre #PeerTube #Chat #Signal #XMPP #DeltaChat #Matrix

Here's a proof-of-concept example of a Delta.Chat bot for .NET

It's pretty basic, especially since I can't get #open-rpc-generator to generate #csharp code, seems to be limited to #rust and #typescript

To use it, follow the `import` instructions and provide your own implementation of `IMessageProcessor`.

#deltachat

https://github.com/timothyparez/deltachat-dotnet-bot/

@delta

Markdown no longer works on version 2.25.1 of Desktop Linux ?…

It was so handy !

#deltachat #markdown

#introduction

So finally #ArcaneChat has official presence in social media! 🎉

ArcaneChat is a decentralized anonymous chat app, with multi-profile and multi-device support, fully compatible with #DeltaChat

https://arcanechat.me

I'm positively convinced that #deltachat is developed by some kind of magic.

I wonder what would happen if their developers took on the hard problem of cheating in online games like CounterStrike or ApexLegends. 🤔

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is brought to you by SSSE3:

* Polish app guide? Fennec has great translations
* #ArcaneChat #DeltaChat w/ better onboarding
* #Kotatsu stopped development
* #Luanti #Minetest now on #OpenCollective
* #Notesnook caught up
* Anoher big #OSMAnd release
* #Session Messenger vs screenshots
* Repomaker at #DroidCon #Kampala
+ 15 new apps
& 197 updates
- 2 archived

And we have yet to unleash all its power: https://f-droid.org/2025/11/13/twif.html

@maikel it's unlikely #deltachat contributors go for tying identities to insecure and tightly state-controlled phone-numbers. It would be tons of efforts and would derange us from our goal of providing private messaging tooling, easily replicable, useable and extendable at federated scale. However, easing getting-in-contact UX flows are a high priority and under continuous contributor discussions.

I might be deleting my Matrix account, I find it utterly useless. Let alone the continous ask for confirming encryption is incredibly poor UX.

@delta sounds in paper like the ideal federated service and the interface of the Android app so far looks like old-whatsapp which makes it easy.

But frictionless account discovery is still the issue. How do you talk to your contacts using DeltaChat when you can't find who on your concact list (eg.: by phone number) is on DeltaChat?

Signal and Telegram do discovery better in that they allow you to choose if you want to be found by phone or a handle.

#deltachat #matrix #UX

@delta Я буду очень рад, если мой любимый мессенджер #DeltaChat станет ещё популярнее❤️🥛

We were surprised to hear today that Forbes.ru (a subsidiary of the global Forbes brand it seems) recently published an article quoting an expert recommending to use #deltachat on the backdrop of restrictions of Signal, Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord and Viber in Russian networks.

https://www.forbes.ru/tekhnologii/548966-ne-gasite-vasi-ekrany-cem-zamenit-telegram-i-whatsapp

Does anyone know if it’s possible to download and install #deltachat in China without a VPN? I assume it is possible to chat across the firewall.

@delta any idea?

#deltachat is a private messaging app. It'd be easy enough to offer various public groups to boost onboarding, and let everyone play. But one would land in a large group that isn't very private, with lots of needs for moderation tooling, troll handling and other social-media issues. Not our current cup of tea.

We are grateful for the many folks here onboarding their families, projects or friends, founding special-interest chats, setting up #chatmail relays etc. This is wonderful, cheers!

@ferrex you are right. #Olvid is pretty well done regarding UX for boarding and getting in contact, largely similar to how #deltachat does onboarding, with interesting differences. Something to learn from (we think in bot directions). Thanks for pointing this out to us!
Do you happen to know any olvid people in the fediverse? It's not an open source project and work with a central transport server, no federation etc, but still interesting to engage with from a UX standpoint.

Também queria provar um outro cliente de Delta Chat, ArcaneChat, mas não sei como fazer tendo as duas apps no telemóvel... O sistema vai com códigos QR e... 🤷🤷

Alguém sabe? Obrigado

@adbenitez

#Arcanechat #DeltaChat

@adbenitez if these #Deltachat channels can be shared and joined by QR code, I say they have a chance to succeed where #RSS feeds failed. The normies of the world are loathe to copy magical URLS and paste them manually into some other app.
https://autistics.life/@d1/115479430472009485

Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟮 [UPDATE 2] to 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗸𝘁𝗼𝗽 - 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟮𝟳 - 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗳𝗹𝗶𝘅 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 [FreeBSD Desktop - Part 27 - Configuration - Netflix Signal Telegram] article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/09/06/freebsd-desktop-part-27-configuration-netflix-signal-telegram#more

#verblog #session #deltachat #pidgin #freebsd #desktop #laptop @feld

Oh, interessant, was @delta zu dem Statement der Signal-Präsidentin erwidert:

chaos.social/@delta/115454041149791990

Ich nutze zwar immer noch Signal als "Haupt-Messenger", aber es bestärkt mich, auch weiterhin auf Delta.Chat (Made in Germany) zu setzen.
(Siehe dazu angehefteter Beitrag in meinem Profil.)

#Signal #SignalApp #DeltaChat #Messenger

Which #OpenSource #decentralized, group #chat which supports E2E (end-to-end) #encryption is best? #infosec
#fediverse #Matrix #XMPP #Deltachat #privacy #security #OMEMO

@adbenitez having said this, I know more than one person who administer larger group chats in #WhatsApp (100's of members), and an important feature for them is that the administrator of the group can set the group "read-only" for most members. This is to stop people from posting whatever they want. This rigidly locks the group topic to what the few privileged posters post. This very much makes it like a "one-way" mailing list, where you either subscribe, or you don't (but you don't really contribute postings back in an open discussion). This is to silence unruly upstarts who might actually compete with, or run across the grain of the chat room's more narrow, focused, stated intent. These more strongly hierarchical-minded types would not like #Deltachat (nor #RSS, sadly, which is what I would prefer to recommend to them).

I'm trying to convince these "glorified mailing list" types to use #Signal (has group features similar to WhatsApp), but the progress is very slow.

@d1 that read-only groups are a poor implementation of channels (like #telegram channels), which are coming soon to #DeltaChat

Many experts caught up in the past crypto/decentralization discourse fail to recognize one key innovation area of #deltachat and #chatmail efforts:

A user interface (UI) and experience (UX) that mimicks and closely resembles Whatsapp and Telegram ... who both have a central cleartext database of identities, social graphs and, in the case of Telegram, also messages and media, of billions of users!

We prefer to ground every discussion in UX/UI terms and measure security by outcomes for users.

@adbenitez соглашусь,думаю #DeltaChat и не менее хороший #fork #ArcaneChat станут ещё лучше!🥛🤍

@lexinova @upofadown FWIW there are some non-electron clients https://chatmail.at/clients and an upcoming post about an experimental Tauri one. The current #deltachat desktop electron-based client tries to both size-bloat/ram wise do better, and also e.g. bars the frontend rendering process from doing any Internet connections which are purely done via the Rust core library, for all #chatmail clients.

@fabrice @freddy we hear you but it's the truth: by onboarding to #deltachat today you are diving into an experimental testrun of "the future of email" , also known as #chatmail https://chatmail.at

Finally we, as app distributors, want to fully disentangle from any "default" server. Testrun will become history :)

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homepage of https://testrun.org with the subtitle "experimenting with the future of Email"

@crazy_pony

1) there are bridges ("matterdelta") which provide interop with Matrix, XMPP, Telegrram, ssh and anything that Matterbridge provides. It doesn't preserve end-to-end encryption and so bridging bot choice is tricky.

2) There are growing efforts around 3rd party #chatmail clients https://chatmail.at/clients. Interoperability is "free" between all chatmail clients (#deltachat being the prominent one). Unlike #Signal we welcome third parties to the party :)

@delta I agree, #Deltachat is awesome for superfast account creation, then sharing the account by QR code. No password set or stored, no phone number or email given, no password manager grumbled about necessitating

We hereby challenge _all_ other messaging apps, FOSS or not, to provide a more convenient private onboarding experience than #deltachat

1. Install app
2. "Create new profile"
3. Enter nick name, tap "Agree and continue"
4. Tap "+" and "new contact" and provide/scan qr code/link

Voila! A secure private chat, familiar to those coming from Whatsapp or Telegram (without "AI", with #a11y).

Note: chat identities are private and can not be queried or discovered. Servers keep no track or metadata

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Start screen of https;//get.delta.chat apps which shows Delta chat logo (Greek letter delta) Secure decentralized chat "Create new profile" button highlighted

Alt...

Create profile screen With a field to enter a name ... "Fediverse chicken" was typed A link to the privacy policy of nine.testrun.org, the default onboarding chatmail relay A highlighted button "agree and continue" A button "use other server"

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Screenshot of newly created profile Title bar "fediverse chicken" Two chats in the chat list: "Device messages" with instructions how to setup contact with another chat profile "Saved messages" where you can "save" messages from other chats to memorize them

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115477203534728176

for things like this I completely avoid upfront any platform that depends on phone numbers and I prefer to use #DeltaChat

Per un cost molt baix, menys de 5€, pots tenir un servidor de #DeltaChat (els anomenen relays) capaç de gestionar tranquil·lament uns quants milers de perfils.

"A Debian 12 server with reachable SMTP/SUBMISSIONS/IMAPS/HTTPS ports. IPv6 is encouraged if available. Chatmail relay servers only require 1GB RAM, one CPU, and perhaps 10GB storage for a few thousand active chatmail addresses."

https://github.com/chatmail/relay

Hey @delta! Reading this https://delta.chat/en/2025-05-22-browser-edition got me thinking. I live in Firefox but miss Chrome’s one-click “Install PWA as app”. What about a Tauri-based helper + a Firefox extension that wraps a PWA into a desktop app in one step? Hosting stays light: the PWA is cached; relays/self-hosted instances can serve the client. Keeps control with admins. Interested? 👍🏻

#Firefox #PWA #Tauri #DeltaChat #FOSS #OpenSource #SelfHosting #WebExtensions

Great post from @Jdm2 about his getting away from WhatsApp and looking into #deltachat

https://write.as/jdm2/deltachat-y-arcanechat-son-las-definitivas-alternativas-a-whatsapp

We also just reposted his invitation to a Puerto Rico group, because we think the way this group is instigated is exactly right: ask for people to drop into a DM, or like with the borken.social Fediverse instance: show an invite link only for authenticated users 🎯

Non-public invites maintain some privacy and sense of joiners and brings e2ee messaging to instance communities.

Ja sé que tots sou molt racionals, però en el #DeltaChat, quan entres dins dels grups, en el fons de pantalla, a part de clar/obscur podria existir també la opció d'insertar una imatge des de la teva galeria, per canviar el fons?

Countering toxicity and fake takes is not just a technical question (moderation, admins etc) but one of social curation both collectively and privately: which people and groups do you/we trust for what. No tool can automate that.

#deltachat is for private e2ee messaging and mutually curated group chats, and not random social media propelled onboarding. We are with #Signal here and not with #simplex and #matrix who offer public anonymous discovery of large chat groups with lots of unknown folks.

@surfhosting thanks for trying and telling about your experiences!

We generally recommend to use #deltachat for private chatting and your "300 people group" does not sound quite like that. Delta Chat is not geared and not well suited for groups of hundreds of people, today. Are the issues you noted related to such larger groups? If not, would you mind sharing a few, maybe on the https://support.delta.chat forum?

Today, we were nicely surprised by @gianmarcogg03 with a new comprehensive (italian) #deltachat introduction video, going through initial setup, groups and chatting, second device setup, #webxdc apps, bots, calls and playing Quake -- all the nice things you can do these days :)

https://mastodon.uno/@gianmarcogg03/115462294953394774

containing peertube, odysee and youtube links (latter provides English subtitles)

Fun fact: devs noticed some tiny but embarrassing glitches in the UI which are now getting fixed as we speak :)

@vermaden @delta you can make #DeltaChat desktop work on #FreeBSD

you can build it yourself https://support.delta.chat/t/delta-chat-on-freebsd/2948

Or wait a bit, because @feld is working on making a real package for it.

@delta

...but there is one thing that #Deltachat does not provide while it works perfectly fine with #Signal ... the desktop client that works on #FreeBSD and is available in #FreeBSD pkg(8) packages.

The 'web' approach (such as https://web.whatsapp.com for WhatsApp) would also satisfy my needs - I can use a client in the browser - but if there is no 'native' client and no browser client option for #FreeBSD - that means total NO-GO for me.

Signal's president claimed it takes billions to replicate the availability and reliability of "hyperscalers" (AWS/Google/Microsoft/Cloudfare) that Signal uses.

#chatmail and #deltachat are about disproving this claim by

1) making relays super cheap (DONE)

2) enabling chat profiles to use multiple relays redundantly (WIP)

3) distributing relay knowledge among chatters (TBD).

Fat servers, corporate overlords and billionaires: not needed and better to not exist for a convivial e2ee future :)

❇️ Em plau comunicar-vos la creació d'un servidor de #xat per a #DeltaChat a mastodont.cat. ❇️
Només cal instal·lar l'aplicació Delta Chat en el mòbil, tauleta o ordinador i visitar la pàgina per a obtenir-hi un perfil:

https://xat.mastodont.cat

Delta Chat és una aplicació de #MissatgeriaInstantània que respecta la #privacitat al màxim perquè xifra els missatges de persona a persona (també en els grups), és programari lliure i els seus servidors son federats.

@liaizon I feel like #DeltaChat is exactly that: a lesson in almost every aspect of what is possible and what should be done.

@machocam @liaizon That is indeed an interesting question, and as it seems to happen more and more #DeltaChat seems to have a surprise ready: Due to the battle proven email-server software we have today, combined with the fact to set up the infrastructure to basically only facilitate messages slipping through the cost is – compared to Signal – a fraction. I'm no expert and have no experience, but what I hear sounds impressive.

Hey all, I added PixelSocial to #DeltaChat (just curious) after a few hours went to bed but PS was ignoring my DND through my watch, I deleted the chat but was still getting notified, I tried disabling profile (1 of 5), then turned off notifications, and finally deleted that profile but made no difference, I've just figured out that it was probably because I had a copy of that profile and chat on another device, before I delete the chat is there a "nuke this chat" option or is it a case of

delete chat on each device?
Many thanks.
#deltachat #PixelSocial
PS didn't post in GitHub or directly to devs because I think I'm at fault rather than issue with app 🙄

Buenos dias a todes desde #deltachat usando su #mastodonBridge

@ivangj Jo, quería probar a instalar #DeltaChat en mi BlackBerry, pero veo que el archivo apk requiere Android 5 como mínimo y mi BB solo es compatible con apps hasta Android 4. No sé si habría otra manera de instalarla (sí puedo usar XMPP con una app antigua, por ejemplo) @delta

I just had a 72 minute, completely glitch free video call via #DeltaChat.

While the interface still needs polish, it's already a really solid experience.

Anecdotally, the A/V quality was better than the same call I made via XMPP the day before.

Thanks and congratulations to @delta for an impressive new feature.

We are aware of roskomnadzor just having ramped up their blocking efforts in #russia against #deltachat 's default onboarding chatmail relay. Signal, Whatsapp are degraded/blocked for a longer time already.

1) Delta Chat has first class shadow-socks proxy support (try ss:// links you can find ... Delta has management-proxy UX)

2) many other chatmail relays work fine and inter-chatmail/email server traffic continues unimpeded

3) if you can help with analyzing please drop into our DMs.

Pero criticar sin dar alternativas se queda pobre. Para mensajería instantánea #xmpp y delta.chat. #DeltaChat me ha sorprendido lo fácil que es incluso para gente que no domina del todo el whatsapp.

Para todo lo demás,

https://socials.squat.net/#alternatives

#alternatives to #bigtech
#alternativas a #GrandesTecnologicas #Tech

La gente de #DeltaChat vuelven a impresionar 🤯 ahora con llamadas P2P (**en beta**)... Donde los servidores no necesitan hacer NADA especial, ni siquiera actualizarse. Todo sigue funcionando bajo estándares de #email. 😍

Hay algo mágico en una aplicación que consigue ser tan independiente incluso de su propia infraestructura. 🪄

Brillante trabajo, @delta, mis felicitaciones. 🚀

Believe it or not: #deltachat is growing audio/video calls starting with the currently rolling 2.22 releases ... A few people already had two hour long stable calls :)

Calls are an experimental option while we continue to work on reliability, UX/UI revisions, and configuration of TURN servers on #chatmail relays and in clients.

We want calls to reliably work across all major platforms, networks and phones, including #UbuntuTouch

Feedback and debugging happens at https://support.delta.chat/t/help-testing-upcoming-delta-chat-release-with-calls/4220/17

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is alive:

* website categories fixed
* calls by e-mail? #DeltaChat #ArcaneChat
* we caught up with #Catima
* last #FOSS version #DOOM #Wolfenstein #RPG
* sorry Android 5,6 and 7, #Fennec now needs 8+
* #Passkeys by #KeepassDX
* time flies, 10 years of #NewPipe
+ 8 new apps
& 131 updates
- 2 archived apps

Start reading: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/24/twif.html

Pues he visto más de cerca las bondades de @delta y la verdad es que tiene muy buena pinta.
Por ahora “solo” estoy en 3 servidores:
xat.fedi.cat
chatmail.hackea.org
Y mi cuenta icloud.com
Está claro que un “relay” de Delta Chat es más rápido de entregar que el correo tradicional, pero que vamos, que va de 2 segundos más tarde como mucho.
#DeltaChat

I've been on the hunt for some accessible, easily self-hosted (on prem or datacenter) chat solution for a while now, and I've been looking very closely at deltachat/chatmail.

Not gonna lie, the fact that just uses mature SMTP facilities for transport is making me weirdly aroused.

If anyone has experience running their own chatmail server or just using deltachat in general, I'd be glad to hear from you.

#DeltaChat #ChatMail #SelfHosted #HomeLab

@delta @fedicat @eXOfasia there's one in #Canada, which is nice. #ElbowsUp #DeltaChat
https://chtml.ca/

Good news! It's getting harder to keep track of new #chatmail relays :)

Recently several public relays were added to the https://chatmail.at/relays list, in Warsaw, Helsinki, Romania and Barcelona.🧡

If you have #deltachat installed on mobile, you can go to any chatmail relay website in the list and click on a link there to create a chat profile.

It's wonderful to hear about collectives setting up chat infrastructure like the recent https://xat.fedi.cat from @fedicat and @eXOfasia

@kuketzblog

#DeltaChat needs update:

DC has 500K+ downloads in google play

e2ee encryption should be "yes", default onboarding servers don't even allow to send/receive unencrypted nor can people disable encryption, while #Conversations has "yes" and the xmpp servers don't enforce encryption, groups are often unencrypted and it is easy to disable encryption

max. number of participants per group is 1000 (depending on server)

Werft mal einen Blick auf die Messenger-Matrix. Trotz aller Bemühungen kann es sein, dass nicht alle Informationen zu den Messengern aktuell sind. In diesem Fall bitte ich um Rückmeldung, damit ich die Matrix anpassen kann. ❤️ 👇

https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix.html

FAQ: https://codeberg.org/kuketzblog/www.messenger-matrix.de#wissenswertes-zur-matrix-faq

#briar #conversations #xmpp #deltachat #discord #element #matrix #facebook #google #imessage #jami #line #session #signal #simplex #siskin #skype #telegram #teleguard #threema #viber #whatsapp #wire

Not taking Venture Capital money means:

- No pressure to maximize monetization of usage (for every million of VC funding you need to find ~100+ Million in value later).

- No prioritization of growing fast with PR campaigns that promise the moon and stumble on the ground

- No billionaire who ultimately profits

Instead, we seek public funding and private contributions for #chatmail #deltachat and #webxdc developments.

Thanks to everyone who is helping and already test-driving things :)

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home page picture of https://testrun.org text title "Testrun.org" with the sub title "experimenting with the future of Email" the picture is a collage and shows the head of a dinosaur with an open mouth and many teeth trying to swallow a Zeppelin that seems to be flying directly into the mouth. Next to the dinosaur head is a classic "@" email symbol. the middle part is blue, and has overlay graphics of a moon-like planet and some old computers in the back the bottom part contains a picture of a sysadmin ca. 1975 in front of computer screens that show green letters on a black screen. There also are separately three cryptic letter chains that seem to translate to "Communications", "Command" and "Sigma". Another "@" sign is left of the computer screens.

@cos hi, for your information there is a #DeltaChat #matterbridge plugin, that means you can bridge Delta Chat rooms to #Matrix, #Telegram, #XMPP, #IRC, etc

https://github.com/deltachat-bot/matterdelta

there is also other alternative bridges, ex. search for Telegram here:

https://deltachat-bot.github.io/public-bots/

@redbr1ck

@d1re_w0lf hi, this is not true, people can't delete other people's messages

what they can do is modify group name/avatar and add/remove members because #deltachat is for private chatting with friends and family were everyone is trusted and has the same rights, Delta Chat doesn't have public groups with admins (channels with admin similar to telegram's are coming tho)

@_elena

Inform your friends and family about these tools.

#Briar ... https://briarproject.org

"Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in."

#Retroshare ... https://retroshare.cc

"Retroshare establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on #Android, #Linux, #MacOS and #Windows. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service."

#RicochetRefresh ... https://www.ricochetrefresh.net

"Ricochet Refresh is an open-source project to allow private and anonymous instant messaging."

#OnionShare ... https://onionshare.org

"OnionShare is an open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network."

#DeltaChat ... https://delta.chat

"Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app."

#Bitmessage ... https://bitmessage.org

"Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs."

#TorBrowser ... https://www.torproject.org/download

"Protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship."

#I2P ... https://geti2p.net

"The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer. It protects your activity and location. Every day people use the network to connect with people without worry of being tracked or their data being collected. In some cases people rely on the network when they need to be discrete or are doing sensitive work."

#Hyphanet ... https://www.hyphanet.org/

"Hyphanet is peer-to-peer network for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication. The original Freenet."

#BitChan ... https://github.com/813492291816/BitChan

"BitChan is a decentralized anonymous imageboard inspired by BitBoard and built on top of Bitmessage with Tor, I2P, and GnuPG."

#DarkMX ... https://darkmx.app

"DarkMX is a new decentralized communication app that utilizes Tor hidden services to allow you to easily have an anonymous, reliable, and censorship-resistant presence on the internet. You can chat. You can share files. You can search other people's files. You can keep a contact list and send private messages to your friends. You can create your own custom .onion site, available to anyone with a Tor Browser."

#Decentralized #TOR #AntiSurveillance #Anonymity #Anonymous #Privacy #Filesharing #Networking #Communication #P2P #F2F #PeerToPeer #Censorship #AntiCensorship #FreeSpeech

Good morning Fedi friends!

Time to try out something new 👀

#DeltaChat

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a screenshot of my desktop showing a gradient background and a window that says "welcome to Delta Chat - secure decentralized chat - create new profile - I already have a profile"

@Laberpferd hey you seem to be #German, if you want to try out a small anonymous social network for German-speakers inside #deltachat:

https://i.delta.chat/#45AC0444EB183B1987225D0D4D688ECC7AE42ECD&a=social%2Dde%40arcanechat.me&n=Bildpunkt%20Sozial&i=fSHNaxy4rMYwKaMsvZvDqn7J&s=B3ZpH_TS3tIMwTY7wPiNXJOg

@tmw keep an eye on #DeltaChat, it is super user friendly and easy to onboard family and video calls are coming! there is already prototypes version with call feature

@cryptgoat

@Jonas #DeltaChat, it has super easy onboarding, easier than Signal: no phone number, no SMS codes, no solving CAPTCHAs just set a name and start chatting

it also has super nice multi-account and multi-device support, unlike Signal

#messaging: currently on #deltachat and currently trying #briar, i can add contacts... but the app kind of half expects me to know someone close to me or at least near me, and nobody in my area that i know of freaking uses briar or deltachat or any of the apps i want to use, and still stubbornly stick to whatsapp or discord. so as a result i have no one to contact unless i actively look for people who also use briar or deltachat. may try matrix but it's not that great in my experience.

@fdroidorg and also #DeltaChat 😎

@jaxter take a look at #DeltaChat for decentralized private comms, it is super easy to setup, unlike #Signal it doesn't require phone number or any private data for registration, no CAPTCHA, no SMS code, just set a name and avatar and start chatting

it also has super nice multi-device and multi-profile support, unlike Signal

@gharbeia I also recommend #DeltaChat instead of #matrix for private communications with friends and family, it is much more user-friendly and painless to configure (literally, just set a name and avatar) and has great multi-profile and multi-device support

but if you need it for public rooms, then you have to stick with matrix or #xmpp

@pedrosanta

@nixCraft #DeltaChat is right there, folks

There is no single central #Signal server. Signal uses #AWS cloud, plus Google Cloud, Microsoft Cloud and Cloudflare, all under US legislation. If any of these clouds goes down or becomes otherwise problematic, chatting degrades or fails.

With #deltachat you can choose #chatmail relays ( https://chatmail.at/relays ) which distributes the risk across a wider network. We are currently working on the multi-transport feature to finally remove any central point of chat failure https://chaos.social/@delta/115362144863345662

@jwildeboer if you haven't yet, I recommend you to look into #DeltaChat for private communications

@fink yeah there are plans to support multiple servers/addresses with the same profile I am really looking forward to that,

in the meantime, you can configure several accounts in #DeltaChat and then use a different chatmail provider in each one, so if one fails you can fallback to another, but yeah that will be much more convenient in the future without needing a different profile for each server

@jeroen @splitbrain @delta

@_elena I don't think #matrix is good for family and friends, I recommend #DeltaChat for that use case, it is much more user-friendly and simple for family and friends, registration is painless, just set a name and avatar, no private information needed, no passwords, no captcha, no SMS codes, etc.

and it has good multi-device multi-profile support

With @signalapp having a problem because AWS us-east-1 is having trouble, I'm looking at installing @delta as a side-channel for situations like this ... does anyone know if it does video?

I know it's a chat function, and I'm not asking for miracles. It's a genuine question about capabilities.

I see there are web apps, and capabilities to integrate things, so I'm wondering what's available in the base install.

My investigations begin ...

#Signal #DeltaChat

@roughnecks even if you remove server costs:
"Personnel costs are 19 million dollars per year"

besides, the point of my previous post was that all that millions would have gone better to some #xmpp effort or #DeltaChat

I don't get your bad vibes, I will not further reply to you, have a nice weekend

@debacle @d1 @yourautisticlife

@debacle it really depress me to see people donating and throwing millions of dollars to a centralized service (with a good chunk of that money going to Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc. just to pay in expensive Signal servers infrastructure)

if only that money would have been invested into improving a mainstream multiplatform #XMPP client solution, or into #DeltaChat 😮‍💨 the world is so unfair, only the good die young 🥲

@d1 @yourautisticlife

Help us to test the upcoming Calling 📞 feature in #DeltaChat

https://support.delta.chat/t/help-testing-upcoming-delta-chat-release-with-calls/4220

It replaces the external video chat links with an integrated calling solution like you know from other Messengers.

@debacle I was really disappointed by #signal recently, I don't really use it, only for testing, was trying to add it to a second device and it was not possible at all without losing it in my main device, what is worse, even then transferring from one device to the other failed so ended up having to start from scratch in the second device losing all chats etc 🤦‍♂️ it made me realize how much luxury I enjoy with #DeltaChat 's multi-device and multi-profile support

@d1 @yourautisticlife

@d1 yeah, #DeltaChat can't be used for public groups, all groups are private for ex. family and friends or trusted people, hence everyone can administrate the group, which is quite practical for that scenario, in the future there could be some kind of group with administrator/owner in DeltaChat, but as you said, TODAY a DC group can't replace a Signal one if it is for public interactions with strangers

@yourautisticlife

@yourautisticlife You're correct, however #deltachat groups are less stable and coherently manageable than Signal Groups, be warned. Deltachat groups, _technically speaking_, have this more ragtag, anarchy feel to them - no clean and totally bug-free management of them (for whomever believes themselves to be the Admin of them).

Group management is a little frayed and threadbare in Deltachat (also #XMPP - *should you insist on #OMEMO encryption*). #Signal, despite people's nitpicks about it, is a tough choice to beat for *today's*, choices, IMHO. Repeat, _today_.

Others will sing the praises of what might come to be tomorrow (or next week, month, year, or who knows if ever?), but I say take your best choice for *today*, and be grateful you have even that much.

You're going to hear some other passionate views about these technologies! Flame shields up!

#OpenSource #nokings

@Tourma sure thing! it is the same! the "add second device" doesn't do anything special, each #DeltaChat device is autonomous! and synchronizes as usual independently of a "main" device, so if your "main" device dies it doesn't matter, all your devices are "main devices"! that means every device works as a full backup and you will never lose your profile and chats!

@Adam @kkarhan @monocles fun fact: you can use the same #webxdc in-chat-apps in #monocles and #deltachat - thanks to open protocols, standards and communication

@LadyNeuroFunk #DeltaChat all the way 🤓