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Are people here using DeltaChat? Seems like an easier to use alternative to Matrix and more decentralized than Signal (piefed.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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https://delta.chat/

https://delta.chat/en/help#e2ee

I gave it another try last week

the onboarding automatically creates a username/password on the server you selected, more details here: https://chaos.social/@delta/115479392746850836
E2EE using openpgp
fast and light on resources

It's still in development, it's not a fully fledged replacement for Matrix yet, but I could see it replace Signal at some point.

For a list of servers: https://chatmail.at/relays

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[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Years (and years) ago, I used it for a while. I kept getting locked out of my email (GMX) account. The messages DeltaChat creates are obviously full of cyphertext, and to a spam filter they look very spammy.

The DeltaChat concept is an interesting idea, and clearly a sort of progress, but it's also a bit of a hack. As a stopgap solution, fine, but I say the day we can replace Signal is the day that Matrix becomes usable. I wish that day would come sooner.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 1 month ago

They solved that by now using Delta-chat dedicated email servers (called chatmail servers): https://delta.chat/en/2023-12-13-chatmail

Definitely much better that what it used to be, I had a similar experience to you a few years ago.