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

chaos.social

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. 💜