it is time for a change folks!

2 years ago by adbenitez to c/delta_chat

pizza_the_hutt 26 points 2 years ago

What is the difference between this and Signal?

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corsicanguppy 4 points 2 years ago

Shitballs! This thing uses mail for chat. It's RIDDLED with open standards.

I'm not even mad. I'm amazed. But I stand by my other comment.

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adbenitez 3 points 2 years ago

to start with, Signal is centralized (and prune to change business model and privacy policy any time in the future) requires phone numbers, not anonymous, bad multi-device support, hard to have multiple accounts (does it has multi-account support at all?)

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ICastFist 3 points 2 years ago

Deltachat basically turns emails into instant messaging, so nobody needs to set up servers or instances, self hosters just need a working SMTP

Since the email traffic increases a lot (every message you send counts as an email), some providers might block your account after a very short while, on suspicion of some sort of bad behavior.

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recklessengagement 5 points 2 years ago

So... Its worse?

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ICastFist 1 point 2 years ago

In some ways (initial configuration, relying on mail provider), yes.

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jet 1 point 2 years ago

https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm

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Jesusaurus 12 points 2 years ago

Why?

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disguy_ovahea 2 points 2 years ago

I assume it’s Meta’s ownership of WhatsApp now that Zuck donned the red tie.

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jackalope 17 points 2 years ago

Why not just use Signal?

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possiblylinux127 3 points 2 years ago

Or simplex chat or anything else

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jackalope 2 points 2 years ago

Simplex is good but they really need to rebrand their name.

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corsicanguppy 5 points 2 years ago

So, an ad?

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TheFrirish 4 points 2 years ago

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Zachariah 3 points 2 years ago

Threema, Signal, and Matrix are great alternatives, too.

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z3r0_Geek 1 point 2 years ago

What's wrong with XMPP?

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Zachariah 1 point 2 years ago

idk

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ICastFist 1 point 2 years ago

I've been eyeing Deltachat for a while, mostly for work related stuff: since everyone has a work email, ditching it for whatsapp for all work related chatter made perfect sense.

Unfortunately for me, higher-up orders blocks anyone from using outlook/thunderbird and similars, so Delta doesn't work either.

When I did try to connect with my personal outlook.com email, it didn't work for 3 days, until it finally did because fuck if I know. Gmail seemed to work fine.

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Delta Chat is a new chat app that sends messages via e-mails, encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt. You do not have to sign up anywhere, just use your existing e-mail account with Delta Chat.

https://delta.chat/en/

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delta_chat

@lemmy.zip

Delta Chat is a new chat app that sends messages via e-mails, encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt. You do not have to sign up anywhere, just use your existing e-mail account with Delta Chat.

https://delta.chat/en/

Non official community

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