@jae @pertho the thing that blows peoples minds is how FAST it is as a messenger. They just assume it's gotta be slow because it's email underneath and there will be greylisting and other anti-spam nonsense that will make it frustrating to use.

But this is more like how email worked before anyone did spam filtering at all: fast, direct. Messages delivered via modern internet in less than 1 second usually.

@pertho @jae I would recommend forgetting email exists here at all, install the app, click create account, write a username and bio if you want, and then you're done

you don't even need to know the email address or password involved. Your identity is your PGP key, not your email address, and soon the email addresses being used will begin rotating across a whole network of servers, you'll have multiple paths that you can be reached at, etc etc. And they'll be disposable identities.

how? if the servers involved can only send encrypted mails, we can allow accounts to be created on demand. Spammers can't use them because they won't have any victims to spam unless they can acquire not just the active email addresses of user accounts, but also their public keys... which they won't be able to do

@pertho @jae people you want to chat with on there will have to share their invite link as a URL or QR code (safe to do over insecure comms). Then you'll be able to add them as a contact.

it's so easy to setup, give it a shot. I have an account linked in my bio here if you want to test.

also you can have multiple accounts/identities unlike Signal. This gives you some flexibility for further controlling your opsec

@pertho @jae FINALLY someone who thinks this is cool. Most people are like "but I want to use my own crappy mail server stack / Gmail AND I want to keep using my email address I use for everything else"

ok cool cool nice opsec bud, nobody will ever figure out your identity if they get your hands on addresses used in a conversation