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Using Delta Chat with Chatmail servers for decentralized, open, secure, private messaging

I’ve been using Delta Chat for a while, and I even made my own server for it (see: How to make your own Delta Chat Email Server and compete with WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram), but after I did that, other members of the Delta Chat developer community made new server software called “Chatmail” which is even better for use with Delta Chat. The Chatmail server software is still open-source of course (you can download it here:  GitHub – …

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The Fediverse should avoid bundling Private Messages completely and implement this instead.

Many servers in the Fediverse have implemented “private mentions” or “private messages” or “direct messages” in a manner that uses the ActivityPub protocol without encryption. Fediverse server administrators are able to read all of these private messages on the server which means they’re not really private.  Some have suggested making them encrypted so that server admins can’t read them, but that poses more problems. For example, who’s responsible for enforcing local laws on the server?  …

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The smartest messaging method is not a segregated mess of WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, SMS, Slack, Teams, Facebook, Instagram, WeChat, etc.

“Too Long Didn’t Read” Summary: Managing too many messaging apps can cause cognitive overload and contribute to burn-out. It’s smarter to focus on the one system that works with everything everywhere there’s internet and is completely open for you to control and customize on your own within the largest messaging ecosystem on the planet. Collaborative Diversity Type message, press send Global Standard Everyone else is NOT doing it SMS texting is obsolete Using phone numbers …

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