Delta Chat discovery
I've always been reticent to get out of my communication tools comfort bubble. Signal has been a welcome compromise after WhatsApp was bought by Facebook, but I've never looked into XMPP, Matrix nor Delta Chat, until today.
After using it at the suggestion of @silverwizard to replace a group Twitter DM, after exactly one minute using it I'm 100% sold. The simple fact that it is entirely based on the existing email infrastructure makes it seamless. No new logins, no new remote storage to trust, cross-platform, cross-device, mobile and desktop apps are nice but they aren't even necessary to participate!
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. 🔒 All your...delta.chat
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silverwizard
in reply to Hypolite Petovan • •Twitter DM was necessary as one person didn't have XMPP and everyone had that, two people weren't on the Fediverse anywhere (though I think both would be sucked in via Tumblr)
But Delta Chat is a great scam because if you have their email you can just put them in the chat
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Unknown parent • • •silverwizard
Unknown parent • •silverwizard
Unknown parent • •My sister needs to use app passwords and can't figure that out, but she just follows the email thread
silverwizard
Unknown parent • •I thought you only needed one with 2FA, I dunno
Both my parents are on GSuite and figured it out (though at least one of them has cloned Unix and had code complimented by Dennis Ritchie, so probably doesn't count as average My Parents user story).
silverwizard
Unknown parent • •Big Diggity
Unknown parent • • •My email bigdiggity@vivaldi.net is using Deltachat. Send me a message if you want to test it out.
@hypolite
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