Following popular request, here is a proper announcement about editing and deletion of messages available in app stores now. It briefly highlights how Delta Chat actually works contrary to how even some experts thinks it works :) TL;DR Delta Chat is not a classic e-mail client. It uses special messages to co-ordinate encryption, metadata and group interactions and now edit/delete. Delta Chat implements a Peer-to-Peer messaging paradigm without any server state.
Delta Chat: Messaging editing, deletion and saving now available!
No need to blush or melt in agony after sending a message anymore! Editing and deleting messages is now available in most app stores :) How is this...
streamed yesterday: one-hour german #chaosradio @npub18dhe...29mu freiburg feature at @npub17lye...6th2 with a deep-dive conversation about #deltachat origins, what it has and hasn't to do with e-mail, protection against server compromise, phone based compared to e-mail networking, how to conspire for baking cheese cakes, authoritarianism and sovereignty, protest and organization, how to arrange for shopping and checklists in chats ... and fun music :)
Radio Dreyeckland
Chaosradio Freiburg 0xAC
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Bummer. Last week our OpenTechFund contract was not signed but suspended along with OTF itself. Shit happening overseas. However, we wouldn't deliver resilient messaging infrastructure and apps if we weren't a resilient and fun community. We never had much money to begin with, and are graced with great pro-bono contributions. We are now looking for other public funding but it takes time. Meanwhile it'd be great to get intermittent help via a wealthy donor or small tips
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As big-tech corporates are now starting to snake-sell their exploitative products under the "sovereignty" label we'd like to clarify: #sovereignty lies in controlling and being able to change communication infrastructure components and apps to your needs, without permission. Renting a proprietary product running in a proprietary cloud even if some of the proprietary code runs on machines standing on EU ground ... is willfull subordination, not sovereignty. Duh.
#Signal took a huge bet that running on US big-tech toxic infrastructure is fine because its groundbreaking and industry-shaping cryptography is crafted to neutralize it and keep users safe. But is it really feasible to live on toxic infrastructure in the longer run? #deltachat rather takes a bet on the massive e-mail server network and interoperable protocols, and on #chatmail servers which enforce message encryption and metadata-minimization. Delta is for when centralization turns sour.
There is no shortage of startups and enterprises animated by, or outright proclaiming, replacing e-mail as the de-facto open internet messaging standard. VC Investors are forever fascinated by funding such endeavours. #matrix #simplex #slack etc are examples. #deltachat endorses e-mail but reconfigures and repurposes it to serve for interoperable instant messaging. The #chatmail server network relays end to end encrypted e-mail only, and servers are reduced to dumb store-and-forward relays.