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@strypey

> Sadly, corporate email providers soon started taking steps that made it harder to use Delta Chat reliably with their services. If at all. One by one my family and friends stopped using it.

so you are telling me the reason your contacts stopped using Delta Chat was exactly because the classic email usage is horrible and a terrible experience for anyone that wants a WhatsApp replacement, it sounds to me they are on the right track then

@strypey notice that you can have several accounts/profiles in Delta Chat tho, you could have a dedicated address for the (very few according to what you say) contacts that use DC, and keep using the other address in DC just for unencrypted emailing

migrating addresses is super easy in DC nowdays, you can go to settings add new relay/address, then re-configure in a new profile the old address for unencrypted email usage

wow! https://arcanechat.me has more than 11k accounts! yet less than 10 people support the project with monthly donations

if you are a happy #ArcaneChat user, please consider becoming a supporter! one-time donations are also very appreciated, no amount is too small!

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With #ArcaneChat not only you have end-to-end encrypted #email without the provider seeing the content, you can also edit your message and fix your typos 💅

level up your email game and move your communications to ArcaneChat ✨

the best part: it is free and without lock-in with a specific provider that force you to use their (often paid) servers

#ArcaneChat 2.43.0 released!

🔮 What’s new?

★ Allow to start calls with video disabled

★ Allow to set descriptions for groups and channels

★ Allow to play voice messages and other audio files in background

★ Allow to switch profile when sharing or forwarding

★ Display message views count to channel owners

★ and more, read: https://lemmy.ml/post/43378050

@froge oh! it seems you are a bit behind in news!!! since version 2 there is no more "opportunistic encryption chats" all chats behave like the old "verified groups feature"!!!

encryption can never drop or change!

@feld actually only one side need to enable the setting, to be able to start a call to others, the receivers will receive the calls

@Minimac

@dalias
> "Delta is sus too tho iirc"

where does that claims come from? most Delta Chat developers are part of or otherwise closely related to trans, queer, and antifa circles, and the CCC comunity

better not spread misinformation (hopefuly not with bad intentions?) if you don't "IIRC"

@bane @rysiek

@bane simplex feels way more experimetal/beta quality, I managed to end up with duplicated groups by accident etc, UI/UX-wise DeltaChat is better

some advantages over xmpp can be found here:
https://fosstodon.org/@arcanechat/115963841644398921

@feld @phnt @dougwade @rysiek @mkljczk that looks like a bug!

@feld @phnt @dougwade @rysiek @mkljczk also notice that for chatmail deployment you don't need the chatmail core anymore, that was in the past because there was an "echo bot" being deployed for testing, the "chatmail core" is actually used by client apps and bots and not needed by the server

@jwildeboer about "Getting of proprietary tech", I wonder if what Signal is using in AWS is some proprietary server service, would be good to figure out, not that it matters much since if something is centralized and you can't self-host it out of AWS then there is no really way to use it in a way that is not proprietary by nature

@dougwade Delta Chat would still be a better option, besides being YEARS ahead of such new solution, in Delta Chat you don't depend on a particular server, for example here in fediverse if your instance goes down suddenly you lose your profile, with delta chat you can have several instances at the same time so if one goes down the other keeps working (this is new and still under development), the fedi solution would also need that level of resilience to be comparable

@rysiek

@kuketzblog the question is not "is Signal big tech?" but "am I using and supporting big tech if I use and donate to signal?" and the answer is YES

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