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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 ( 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 chaos.social/@delta/1153621448…


Chatmail: Relays

Chatmail provides FOSS infrastructure for interoperable, secure, speedy and reliable end-to-end encrypted messaging. Check out clients as Arcane Chat, Bots or Delta Chat today!
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@kimfranken there is github.com/chatmail/relay/blob… but no explicit guide on how to set it up behind a NAT. There is some advise (not written up yet publically, alas) on how to use firewall rules to route traffic to (dynamic) IP addresses behind a NAT. Thing is that your chatmail relay needs to have a reachable SMTP/MX endpoint to receive mail from other email servers.

relay/README.md at main · chatmail/relay

chatmail service deployment scripts and docs . Contribute to chatmail/relay development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Laberpferd

i have one dream, and that is a "multilingual" server that speaks Deltachat as well as XMPP and Matrix and any other messenger and chat system that does not want to be a walled garden

That might be our ony strength the we have, if we are weighted against techbros or other monolithic walled off services, that we could offer a baseline of beeing able to exchange text and files with anyone of an cooperating network. Not forcing people to install "one more app"

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jurisdiction basically doesn't matter if you do your cryptography correctly.
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Jurisdiction Is Nearly Irrelevant to the Security of Encrypted Messaging Apps - Dhole Moments

Every time I lightly touch on this point, I always get someone who insists on arguing with me about it, so I thought it would be worth making a dedicated, singular-focused blog post about this topi…
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@Yuvalne if jurisdiction would not matter then Signal wouldn't threaten to pull out of Europe if the EU goes for #chatcontrol . True, jurisdiction for a server can not decrypt E2EE messages but it can attack services as a whole, or demand metadata info (which account ID belongs to which phone number etc.) behind the scenes.
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vermaden

...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 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.

https://web.whatsapp.com

Log in to WhatsApp Web for simple, reliable and private messaging on your desktop. Send and receive messages and files with ease, all for free.
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