With our #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc efforts we put all intelligence on the end devices, and architecutally separate it from a transport layer that routes safely and fast but knows nothing.

There are a dozen or more #chatmail servers across many jurisdictions, all safely interopable with each other and classic servers.

Turned out we can dumb down email servers by relying on cryptography instead of IP reputation and ai/spam filtering. And have 200ms delivery times. We are not done :)

Es gibt vieles – für Nerds.

#chatmail möchte schnell, einfach und interoperabel für Fastendanwender sein.

Alles mit Tor u.a. Varietäten wären forks mit verändertem konzeptionellem Ansatz...

...nicht mehr chatmail.

Neue - nicht ganz offene - #chatmail-Instanz: Auf einem #RaspberryPi Zero 2 mit UPS und Wlan ins Handynetz für #DeltaChat

Funktioniert gut. Kosten: 54 Euro (mit "Gehäuse", teilweise noch offen), brauchte nur extra Schrauben und Abstandhalter zum Zusammenbau.

Einziger Wehrmutstropfen: Ohne dedizierte IPv4 geht es nicht, und die kostet 5,16 Euro Minimum im Monat bei Vorauszahlung für ein Jahr.

Und jetzt wird es spannend: Die Frontpage von chatmail soll eine richtige Homepage werden...

Preventing enshittificatiom with the "Ulysses pact" from @pluralistic pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…

We consider our efforts aligned: #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc implement "right to exit" on all levels of our decentralized messaging project.

- deploy your own servers permission free and interoperable with all e-mail servers ("federation mast")
- all apps and libraries and server components are 100% Foss
- interactive chat-shared web-apps can be used in other messengers

#righttoexit

Before you ask, this is not standalone. For that someone would need to compile #deltachat_core to wasm and setup some WebSocket proxy because websites are not allowed to open raw TCP connections which are the basis of IMAP and SMTP.

But not impossible, as we could decide to make such a "WebSocket to IMAP/SMTP"-proxy part of the #chatmail project.

Open Source spotlight from @ktn -- including an interview with @r10s about past and future challenges with #deltachat and #chatmail ...

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#deltachat_desktop version 1.46.0 is now released:

🐣 New Onboarding: ⚡️Sign up to secure fast #chatmail servers or use classic e-mail servers

💻 Collapse chat list on small screens or window sizes
📋 Accept images from clipboard in QR reader
🖼️✂️ Image cropper for profile image selector
📌 Webxdc windows now remember their last position and size
🚀 Shorter startup times on newer Mac (through native ARM builds)

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view exact rollout status at github.com/deltachat/deltachat…

#deltachat

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Minimal requirements: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean or iOS 12, iPhone 5s or iPad 5/Air/Mini 2 or Windows 10, macOS 10.15 Catalina, Ubuntu 18.04, Fedora 29 or Debian 10 or compatible systems. The desktop v...

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The #EUGoingDark 42-point plan for after the election has it all: breaking e2e encryption, "lawful" data retention, prohibiting encrypting metadata, threatening jail to developers for non compliance ..... If we thought authoritarian political currents are moving against privacy then this is an entirely new level ... patrick-breyer.de/en/first-ins…

P.s. we need more #chatmail servers and contributors so that our #deltachat app-dev conglomerate provides resilience against such authoritarian pipe dreams

First insight: 42 key points of the secret #EUGoingDark surveillance plan for the new EU Commission

After Sunday‘s European elections, the EU is planning to reintroduce indiscriminate communications data retention without suspicion and force manufacturers to allow law enforcement access to digital devices such as smartphones and cars.

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SimpleX recibe venture capital, si recuerdo bien, yo no me aferraría mucho a su futuro, mira ejemplos recientes como #Skiff (blog.cryptpad.org/2024/02/15/n…)

También, lo de identificadores anónimos es algo que se puede conseguir en otras plataformas, por ejemplo en Delta Chat con instancias de #chatmail

De las app P2P creo #Jami es la más recomendable

No one cares about open-source, until …

If you follow privacy news, you have probably heard that Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted productivity suite, announced that it has been acquired by Notion. We could not resist chiming in since Skiff was compared with CryptPad in the past.

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We just refined the user facing "download" page to include instant #chatmail onboarding instructions get.delta.chat

Did you know there also are first independent #chatmail setups from friendly third parties, eg mehl.cloud and mailchat.pl/ all nicely interoperable and fast?

#chatmail actively develops here github.com/deltachat/chatmail/… ....

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Changelogs Desktop Android iOS Core The desktop versions do not require Delta Chat to be installed on a phone. Minimal requirements: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean or iOS 12, iPhone 5s or iPad 5/Air/Mini 2...

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Today, we are unveiling chatmail services, making onboarding with #deltachat a breeze, with peace of mind.

#chatmail marks a major milestone, answering the practical question of "where can i get a deltachat-ready account" for myself and friends?

Read more on delta.chat/en/2023-12-13-chatm…