App di messaggistica, legami governativi e trasparenza. Il post di #Threema
Il parametro importante e oggettivo su cui si dovrebbe giudicare un servizio di messaggistica è il rapporto sulla trasparenza. Gli utenti dovrebbero essere informati su (a) il tipo di dati utente che un servizio è in grado di condividere con le autorità, (b) le circostanze in cui ciò avverrà e (c) la misura in cui tali trasferimenti di dati sono effettivamente avvenuti in passato
Delta Chat may be criticized for not being the most secure messenger in some sense or not the most feature rich. When it comes to interoperability, however, our efforts and collaborations are the biggest game in town, no? The two biggest sets of internet standards revolve and operate at massive scale around E-Mail and the Web. Our approach fully engages and takes up these extremely impactful sets of standards, and reliably rewires them into a modern UI #deltachat#webxdc#chatmail#xkcd927
A wild community experiment that can not but fail? Probably but whatever, welcome to massive multi-device usage of #deltachat on #chatmail :) it's an account not shared between your own devices but between all devices who can import the backup file that is currently circulating .... Bringing you an anonymous e2ee encrypted forum without individual user identities, with autodeletion from server after a week .... also adressable wirh e2ee messaging .... #DepartmentOfCrazy
For those who like to focus on #security an honest question: which other messenger has, like #deltachat in the last 13 months, received and addressed two independent security audits and one security analysis, all three from renowned auditors and researchers? CC @kuketzbloghttps://delta.chat/en/help#security-audits
How many people do you know that have lost their messaging history on Whatsapp or Signal, photos etc during mobile phone transitions or breakage or through other shenenigans?
#deltachat just got four major usability improvements as the 1.44 releases are rolling out
💗 Reactions on all platforms
💗 iOS Push notifications
💗 Multi-account desktop sidebar
💗 share invite links via other messengers. Enjoy :) https://delta.chat/en/2024-03-12-jumbo44
Given the experiences of the last decade it's healthy to distrust #decentralized tech if
it's mainly developed by a centralized power structure
the involved technology is very complex
there is coin or VC funding involved
#deltachat has 1/100th, if even that, of what other popular messenging projects have in terms of moneys. But our distributed top-notch expertise in UI, crypto, networking tech and our federated collaborative practises across these concerns, try to make up for it ...
❤️ Send emoji reactions for messages
🔄 New Account Switcher sidebar with notification management
🔔 Get notified for all your accounts
⚙️ Improved settings dialog
✨ A whole bunch of refactorings, improvements and bugfixes
In whichever area of #deltachat related developments you look, you will find different people and communities -- even if there are several individuals who appear in multiple contexts as key contributors or drivers. There is no single person who gets to decide about everything even if we do have lead roles for particular aspects. Our experimental community approaches respect Convays Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law -- meaning: our #decentralization tech will be only as good as our social practises
@NathanClayton@kubikpixel#ActivityPub is certainly an overcomplicated protocol and the only reason we use it is that Mastodon does. Why couldn't we simply poll RSS feeds and receive DMs by email (like #DeltaChat)?
People have a tendency, when they design something new, to design it in a straightforward way that makes it work, but with a few rough edges and odd quirks. When they design the second version, they don't have the mindset to just make it work, since the old design already just works. They try to design something with no rough edges or quirks, which counterproductively always makes it worse than the first version as the complexity to avoid the "natural" quirks always ends up being worse than just accepting them. This happens every. single. time. It's how we got #Wayland and #systemd as well.