Any data that is collected on servers will eventually leak or be abused otherwise. By design, no one can enumerate #deltachat profiles which are private and not published on any server. Conversely, #chatmail relays do not see or collect private data or metadata. But wait, there is more :) We are currently evolving end-to-end security protocols and UX to **survive an attacker fully taking over a server**. The attacker shall not even be able to message users, let alone impersonate anyone.

While #cloudflare US-east1 is busy fixing a good part of the Internet, parts of Matrix/Element, X etc down, good old decentralized #chatmail mostly continues nicely and without any degradation :) In other news, there is a new #freebsd community maintained ❤️ #deltachat desktop install: pkg install deltachat-desktop thanks @npub1swcr...y2dn and others!

Denmark and other EU governments still pursue #chatcontrol. They still want to permanently legalize client-side scanning but postponed making it mandatory. They also want to increase age-verification controls which risk to ruin what little is left of privacy in current digital spaces, taken hostage already by US corps. Ourselves? We double down on providing the most private, reliable and fun messaging experience, with a growing federating #chatmail relay network across the globe.

We hereby challenge _all_ other messaging apps, FOSS or not, to provide a more convenient private onboarding experience than #deltachat 1. Install app 2. "Create new profile" 3. Enter nick name, tap "Agree and continue" 4. Tap "+" and "new contact" and provide/scan qr code/link Voila! A secure private chat, familiar to those coming from Whatsapp or Telegram (without "AI", with #a11y). Note: chat identities are private and can not be queried or discovered. Servers keep no track or metadata

It's done! #chatcontrol is officially of the table after the danish EU council presidency drops it for good. It's a small but important victory! Thanks again to @npub14rvf...y6tq for coordinating grassroots interventions, and everyone else, especially on the fediverse, for joining efforts to fundamentally preserve end-to-end encryption 💜 Also to [@Mer__edith](

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) and @npub1rkw6...5q62 for their strong end-to-end encryption work and stances. Of course, vigilance remains important.

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Danish Presidency backs away from 'chat control' | Euractiv

The Danes will seek to propose a voluntary detection regime in the CSAM proposal, instead of controversial mandatory detection orders

Signal's president claimed it takes billions to replicate the availability and reliability of "hyperscalers" (AWS/Google/Microsoft/Cloudfare) that Signal uses. #chatmail and #deltachat are about disproving this claim by 1) making relays super cheap (DONE) 2) enabling chat profiles to use multiple relays redundantly (WIP) 3) distributing relay knowledge among chatters (TBD). Fat servers, corporate overlords and billionaires: not needed and better to not exist for a convivial e2ee future :)

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

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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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