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 (@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 @The Matrix.org Foundation 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 @Matthew Hodgson

#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.

After dropping the #chatcontrol proposals EU governors could next ask themselves why they have, in all of the EU's history, never provided such a pleasant and informative, adaptive and fast user interface to access democratic representatives and governments of EU member countries ... as the one

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

provides -- done mostly by a single person on personal funding. Go figure.

Many thanks to @Fight Chat Control for helping so much to coordinate and support efforts against chatcontrol! It was exactly the right initiative at the right time. 💜

Forget warn apps and mobiles: when it comes to neighborhoods there are many non-digital ways to help each other. Without needing permission from billionaires. Whistles!

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In Little Village, Residents Are Blowing Actual Whistles To Warn Neighbors About ICE

Residents have equipped themselves with bright orange whistles amid ramped-up ICE arrests. "People could hear that noise, and if they don’t have ...

While #chatcontrol poses an existential threat to the Freiburg merlinux GmbH and distributing #deltachat apps from within the EU to all stores worldwide, it would resist any chatcontrol legislation up to the German constitutional and EuGH courts. If the EU based company would need to fold in a few years, there would likely be forks distributed outside the EU that will *seamlessly* continue to function. Our architecture and FOSS licensing makes sure of it. See also

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Delta Chat (@delta@chaos.social)

Preventing enshittificatiom with the "Ulysses pact" from @pluralistic@mamot.fr https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-...