Technology @lemmy.world Sybil @lemmy.world 11 mo. ago

Delta Chat: The e-mail messenger

delta.chat Delta Chat: The e-mail messenger

Delta Chat is a messaging app that works over e-mail 💬 Message anyone with an e-mail address even if they don’t use Delta Chat. 🥳 Enjoy interactive chat experiences through webxdc apps. 🔒 End-to-En...

I don't understand why it took us 50 years to figure out how to do encrypted messaging-over-email. Anyone wanna swap email addresses?

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- Why send messages (encrypted or not) across multiple providers that get to see who you are communicating with, when you are communicating, and how often you are communicating? (i.e. why not just use a dedicated messaging app that we know doesn’t suck?)
  
  who do you KNOW doesn't suck? myself, i like disroot, but i still prefer to encrypt any comms that go across their services, because i can't explicitly trust them. i don't even (really) trust riseup.net. it's always best to encrypt anything thats sensitive yourself and control the keys.
  
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- What will this do to your traditional email inbox?
  
  if you are a deltachat user, it creates a directory for your deltachat messages. if not.... you are strongly encouraged to use deltachat :P
  
  can't you just make a rule
- What about Protonmail or other email services that doesn’t directly connect to conventional email protocols?
  
  personally, i don't trust protonmail, so i haven't tried it, but i think... it just doesn't work lol.
  
  What's the issue with proton? Just the UI being a bit shit?
oooh! they're on the fediverse!

https://chaos.social/@delta/111454694903470186
I really like Delta Chat as a concept. I'm not sure I could convince my friends to use it, as most of them struggle with signing on to email on anything other than a dedicated mail client from their providers.
The UI is just a WhatsApp rip lol
- În their defense, almost all messengers look the same. They just didn't bother to change the color scheme.
  
  Pretty much every messenger I know is different. That one straight up looks like WhatsApp, down to the colour scheme and background.
- i don't use whatsapp so i wouldn't know, but the guts are what interest me. you can use it to message people even if they don't use it!

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