Our project is one of constant exit planning and circumvention considerations ... as times and tech are getting more shitty. We don't bet on a single basket, and not a single state or jurisdiction, and certainly not AWS/Google/Microsoft US clouds which run #Signal servers. No single hoster, platform or language (we do a lot of Rust, granted) and no single device or vendor. At #chatmail protocol levels we regard nothing as holy, and look for simplicity and robustness, and convivial community 🖤

We are aware of roskomnadzor just having ramped up their blocking efforts in #russia against #deltachat 's default onboarding chatmail relay. Signal, Whatsapp are degraded/blocked for a longer time already. 1) Delta Chat has first class shadow-socks proxy support (try ss:// links you can find ... Delta has management-proxy UX) 2) many other chatmail relays work fine and inter-chatmail/email server traffic continues unimpeded 3) if you can help with analyzing please drop into our DMs.

Believe it or not: #deltachat is growing audio/video calls starting with the currently rolling 2.22 releases ... A few people already had two hour long stable calls :) Calls are an experimental option while we continue to work on reliability, UX/UI revisions, and configuration of TURN servers on #chatmail relays and in clients. We want calls to reliably work across all major platforms, networks and phones, including #UbuntuTouch Feedback and debugging happens at

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Help testing upcoming Delta Chat release with calls 📞!

Всем привет! Возможно ли сделать звонок, если использовать только классические �...

Good news! It's getting harder to keep track of new #chatmail relays :) Recently several public relays were added to the

Chatmail: Relays

Chatmail provides FOSS infrastructure for interoperable, secure, speedy and reliable end-to-end encrypted messaging. Check out clients as Arcane C...

list, in Warsaw, Helsinki, Romania and Barcelona.🧡 If you have #deltachat installed on mobile, you can go to any chatmail relay website in the list and click on a link there to create a chat profile. It's wonderful to hear about collectives setting up chat infrastructure like the recent

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from @npub1hmel...pmuk and @npub1pdcu...a7av

Not taking Venture Capital money means: - No pressure to maximize monetization of usage (for every million of VC funding you need to find ~100+ Million in value later). - No prioritization of growing fast with PR campaigns that promise the moon and stumble on the ground - No billionaire who ultimately profits Instead, we seek public funding and private contributions for #chatmail #deltachat and #webxdc developments. Thanks to everyone who is helping and already test-driving things :)

There is no single central #Signal server. Signal uses #AWS cloud, plus Google Cloud, Microsoft Cloud and Cloudflare, all under US legislation. If any of these clouds goes down or becomes otherwise problematic, chatting degrades or fails. With #deltachat you can choose #chatmail relays (

Chatmail: Relays

Chatmail provides FOSS infrastructure for interoperable, secure, speedy and reliable end-to-end encrypted messaging. Check out clients as Arcane C...

) which distributes the risk across a wider network. We are currently working on the multi-transport feature to finally remove any central point of chat failure

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Delta Chat (39c3) (@delta@chaos.social)

#deltachat has reliable and audited end-to-end encryption but reliable message delivery is equally crucial in times of shutdowns and increasing Int...

A few of us are going to visit our neighboring project in federated messaging, the @npub1m9z3...whzq conference in Strasbourg today. The two projects are rather different architecturally, funding-wise etc but we remain ready and interested for discussions around common concerns and general exchange of what's happening :) For those curious, here is a panel discussion from the Elevate festival in Graz 2018

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Risk a Radical Shift? >> Elevate Festival 2018

*Sustainability in Decentralized Communication Infrastuctures* In our search for privacy more and more people switch to “secure messaging ap...

And a later discussion with @npub1jmd9...k8fz

#deltachat has reliable and audited end-to-end encryption but reliable message delivery is equally crucial in times of shutdowns and increasing Internet fragmentation. #chatmail relays are more reliable and faster than classic email servers but they may still fail, leaving users stranded. The recent rollout of V2 releases not only hardened end-to-end encryption but aims for chat profiles to use multiple relays in the future, removing a common point of failure in decentralized private messaging.

What an announcement from #Telegram owner Pawel Durov! To provide just a few critical notes, he - makes believe he is just a commoner, and not the billionaire owner of one of the largest message, media and metadata *cleartext* databases on earth - skips over Global Warming - refers to "fathers and forefathers" of the Internet ... apparently never heard of Radia Perlman, Margaret Hamilton or Ada Lovelace? - conveniently excludes Russia and its authoritarian politics from his critique etc.