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…

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in reply to Kim

@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.
@Kim
in reply to Delta Chat

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"

in reply to Delta Chat

jurisdiction basically doesn't matter if you do your cryptography correctly.
soatok.blog/2025/07/09/jurisdi…
in reply to Talya (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✡️

@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.