You forgot #DeltaChat, which is an excellent alternative to WhatsApp.

@delta

from a random community chat: "#Telegram secret chats exist so you can share your #deltachat QR/link to get off Telegram 😇"

In related news, Arte published a well-done documentary film about "Telegram, the dark empire of Pawel Durov" up (german audio only) arte.tv/de/videos/122721-000-A… -- it's a dive into various TG happenings during the last decades, biographical origins of telegram development, the durov brothers etc..

Telegram - Das dunkle Imperium von Pawel Durow - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Letzte Bastion der Meinungsfreiheit oder Spielwiese für Extremisten und Kriminelle? Am Messenger-Dienst Telegram scheiden sich die Geister. Genau wie an seinem mysteriösen Gründer, dem Tech-Milliardär Pawel Durow.

^ARTE

Great news: DeltaTouch (@deltatouch), a #DeltaChat client created for #UbuntuTouch, is now available on #Flathub!

flathub.org/en/apps/page.codeb…

We've updated our listing linuxphoneapps.org/apps/page.c… accordingly, and would love to see more apps for Ubuntu Touch land on Flathub (and thus be available for #postmarketOS, #Mobian, #Droidian) - the flatpak manifest may help github.com/flathub/page.codebe… .

Install DeltaTouch on Linux | Flathub

Decentralized, secure messenger app, powered by the chatmail core library

^Flathub

putain on croyait être tranquille un moment, mais il est repassé par la fenêtre et on est bien baisés :
Chat Control, le retour !

euroweeklynews.com/2025/11/29/…

(en passant donnez à @LaQuadrature on va avoir besoin de se défendre, là)

#UnionEuropéenne
#UnionFasciste
#Tech
#Chat
#Controle
#Messagerie
#Surveillance
#ViePrivée
#Chiffrement
#BackDoorPourLesGentilsBienSûrMonCul
#TousSuspects
#DeltaChat

Chat Control approved: Certain EU countries will see your private messages. Is yours on the list?

EU governments have finally agreed on a controversial new law that gives a backdoor to reading text messages and viewing photo messages

^{Adam Woodward (Euro Weekly News)}

DeltaTouch is finally available on Flathub, made possible by @ell1e and @d2weber. Thank you very much 🥰

Thanks also to the folks at @flathub for the excellent review and for providing this wonderful platform.

flathub.org/en/apps/page.codeb…

Please check it out and let us know if you run into issues, preferably by reporting it in this forum thread: support.delta.chat/t/feedback-…

#DeltaTouch #DeltaChat #Flathub #flatpak

Install DeltaTouch on Linux | Flathub

Decentralized, secure messenger app, powered by the chatmail core library

^Flathub

• Delta Chat (15%, 2 votes)
• Signal (61%, 8 votes)
• Threema (7%, 1 vote)
• Whatsapp (15%, 2 votes)

Version 2.25.0 is available in the OpenStore and as snap 🎉

We're inching closer to feature parity with the official apps as this release brings the "Apps & Media" overview for chats and contacts that has been missing so far. In addition, a number of bugs have been fixed. For the complete list of changes, check out the changelog: codeberg.org/lk108/deltatouch/…

As a special treat, packages for #UbuntuTouch 16.04 (xenial) have been prepared. The OpenStore does not accept updates for UT xenial anymore, get the xenial update from codeberg.org/lk108/deltatouch/… instead.

#DeltaTouch #DeltaChat

v2.25.0-xenial for Ubuntu Touch 16.04 (xenial) ONLY - !! do not use for other platforms !! - lk108/deltatouch

This release is for Ubuntu Touch 16.04 (xenial) only. **IMPORTANT**: Please backup your profile(s) before installing this update, otherwise it is not possible to go back to the previous version 1.16.2.

^Codeberg.org

My vps 1cpu stopped running reliably, thanks to #matrix using huge amounts of disk

Setting up #xmpp with a reverse proxy is undocumented.

#Deltachat server hosting script doesn’t work with the latest python

I’m really struggling for #selfhosted chat options.

#databag #nostr

• Databag (0 votes)
• Nostr x0chat (0 votes)
• Compile deltachat’s chatmail myself (0 votes)

OF COURSE he can't never be missing. Especially NOT at this time of the year.

chat.maikel.dev/

#DeltaChat #MacaulayMacaulayCulkinCulkin

The Relay of Maikel: Home

The Chatmail Relay run by Maikel

^{chat.maikel.dev}

@kolev I love #XMPP but not having a single cross-platform fully-featured client makes onboarding normies much more difficult, hindering adoption greatly.

Nothing wrong with being the #Ubuntu or #LinuxMint of decentralised #FOSS messengers... people who need the Archlinuxes and BSDs will find them in time.

I have managed to onboard lots of people to cross-platform messengers like #DeltaChat, #ElementMessenger and #SignalApp, but not a single person to XMPP. Cross platform apps also make switching OSes eaiser, e.g. migrating from Windows to Linux, or Android to LinuxMobile.

Limiting myself to deltachat, updated the link in the BIO, learnt to run my own ChatMail relay. Life is GOOD!

i.delta.chat/#AE61572038C0E988…

#Deltachat

I think the killer features are simple:

1. Actually decentralised. Not tomorrow, not theorical, not a work-in-progress. Decentralised: NOW.

2. WebXDC apps taking advantage of that decentralisation are going to be one of its biggest pulls. PixelSocial can entirely overtake local neighbourhood/family FB groups for example once is a bit more feature-complete.

3. Everything's encrypted without annoying you like Matrix

4. UI feels famiiliar like old pre-FB-purchase Whatsapp. Smaller learning curves or no curves at alll, are awesome.

#Deltachat

oh wait there's more?

Why isn't any of this in the docs?

#Deltachat #Chatmail

it's a neat idea to postpone server choice until later, and onboard with some default.

#deltachat apps are currently learning to use multiple addresses at once ("multi-transport"), along with cryptographic hardening against evil server operators. The goal is to provide multi-server onboarding by default, and to automate server migrations (although for a while there will be an advanced settings interface where it's manually managed). You'd be onboarding "to the network" :)

Self-hosted Delta Chat?

I've been thinking more about the hurtle of getting friends and family to use federated/self-hosted services. One of the issues to onboarding is people not "getting" the idea of picking an instance. This has led, in part, to "default" instances, like mastadon.social, that grow so large it almost defeates the idea.

I've been thinking that I really wish #DeltaChat had a web client. I have had a MUCH more difficult time getting folks to try that out than even #fediverse SNS. But I was thinking how the heck are you going to pull that off without @delta having to host the overhead for a robust web client and possibly host a gigantic server system that has to grow exponentially to keep everyone's email from all the possible email providers, really defeating the goal of their project.

This morning, I thought of a possible solution to both problems. What if you have a built-in transfer requirement. So you start with a default, say pleb.joinmastodon.org or noob.delta.chat and after a certain time (3 months or something) you have to either transfer to a new instance, including hosting your own client for in browser decryption web access to your encrypted mail chats or your account (in the case of #mastodon) or web client access (in the case of Delta Chat) is shut off.

Do you think this could work?

@delta_chat

Well, maybe we need to be more clear what we are trying to do: #deltachat apps are a cross-platform private messenger suite, that aims to provide a consistent UX/UI for users with lots of experience using WhatsApp and Signal.

Telegram has good fast UX but is hardly a private messenger (it has a central cleartext database of everyone and everything).

Matrix and XMPP are well-esteemed fellows in federated messaging, but so far didn't grow a WA/Signal-level cross-platform messaging UX.

YMMV

Mental note of an idea before I forget and never tell anyone: @thunderbird should adopt and dig in deep on being the best in class mobile and desktop client for #DeltaChat in addition to being an email and RSS reader. Compete on simplicity and features against closed, commercial Messangers, not just corporate email. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

cc: @delta

elegiría mejor #DeltaChat

Quedó comprobado que #Signal utiliza los servidores de Amazon que, al momento de sufrir un colapso, la mensajería quedaría fuera de servicio.

The easiest way to install chatmail server is a small project written by a single person, meanwhile the #deltachat official server installation process is cluster of unintelligible documentation and a docker image that need multiple commands to setup properly.

How does that one dev build a better hosting experience than a company?

@largo some user-visible differences to Signal:

- onboarding with #deltachat is among the fastest in the industry

- easy to create multiple chat profiles

- multi-device setup and export/import are easy, also between different platforms

- no phone number needed so eg children can participate without forcing a SIM card on them, and without making them discoverable anywhere

- shopping lists, travel checklists, and games like Wonster (a wordle-clone) or Tetris are available for group fun

Signal just released a "poll" feature with great fanfare, while all #deltachat apps already integrated a full suite of chat-shared apps, checklists, polls, shopping lists, calendar, editor + tons of games.

Better, anyone can create new apps, eg as github/codeberg forks from existing apps, and post it to their chats for instant deployment. No need to ask for permission, register an account, and no hosting or DNS: actually "server-less" and fully end-to-end encrypted :)

webxdc.org/apps

Any data that is collected on servers will eventually leak or be abused otherwise.

By design, no one can enumerate #deltachat profiles which are private and not published on any server. Conversely, #chatmail relays do not see or collect private data or metadata.

But wait, there is more :)

We are currently evolving end-to-end security protocols and UX to **survive an attacker fully taking over a server**. The attacker shall not even be able to message users, let alone impersonate anyone.

While #cloudflare US-east1 is busy fixing a good part of the Internet, parts of Matrix/Element, X etc down, good old decentralized #chatmail continues unimpeded and without degradation :)

In other news, there is a new #freebsd community maintained ❤️ #deltachat desktop install:

pkg install deltachat-desktop

thanks @feld and others!

@delta

Hi, can you help:
It seems that #deltachat notification system goes to "sleep" from time to time in android (Google Pixel 6a) so that I don't receive push notifications until I open the app. I haven't yet figured out the mechanism in this problem. I have set notification priority to max. It seems that I need to activate Background Connection from notification settings for things to work. But it shouldn't be necessary nowadays since Google push notifications should do the trick..?

this is not your grandfather's twitter bootstrap framework.

finalizing design for #deltachat #chatmail system. by hackers for hackers.

Seniorzy korzystają z bankowości online, robią zakupy w sieci, kontaktują się z rodziną przez komunikatory.

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#Wyzwanie5Kroków #cryptomator #deltachat

next #ArcaneChat (and #DeltaChat) releases will have support for #RFC 9788 (Header Protection for Cryptographically Protected Email)

probably they will be one of the first email clients to support it, how cool is that?

rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9788.htm…

Here's a proof-of-concept example of a Delta.Chat bot for .NET

It's pretty basic, especially since I can't get #open-rpc-generator to generate #csharp code, seems to be limited to #rust and #typescript

To use it, follow the `import` instructions and provide your own implementation of `IMessageProcessor`.

#deltachat

github.com/timothyparez/deltac…

GitHub - timothyparez/deltachat-dotnet-bot: Proof-of-Concept .NET bot implementation for Delta.Chat

Proof-of-Concept .NET bot implementation for Delta.Chat - timothyparez/deltachat-dotnet-bot

^GitHub

#introduction

So finally #ArcaneChat has official presence in social media! 🎉

ArcaneChat is a decentralized anonymous chat app, with multi-profile and multi-device support, fully compatible with #DeltaChat

arcanechat.me

ArcaneChat

Private chats for the family

^{arcanechat.me}

We were surprised to hear today that Forbes.ru (a subsidiary of the global Forbes brand it seems) recently published an article quoting an expert recommending to use #deltachat on the backdrop of restrictions of Signal, Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord and Viber in Russian networks.

forbes.ru/tekhnologii/548966-n…

Не гасите ваши экраны: чем заменить Telegram и WhatsApp

На фоне учащающейся недоступности самых популярных у россиян мессенджеров Forbes опросил экспертов, чем их можно заменить. Они советуют использовать мессенджеры, поддерживающие сквозное шифрование и децентрализованное хранение данных. А также установ

^{Анастасия Гаврилюк (Forbes.ru)}