Delta Chat: The e-mail messenger
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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. 🔒 End-to-En...

Open source, and nice for normies.

  • Corngood@lemmy.ml
    19·
    9 months ago

    I think in theory it’s great. Email already has solutions for:

    • decentralisation
    • push notifications
    • client sync
    • e2ee
    • groups / cc / bcc
    • hierarchical threading
    • mime / attachments

    etc

  • covert_czar@lemmy.ml
    10·
    9 months ago

    I would prefer using a decentralized messenger like matrix or xmpp which can be bridged with other messengers

  • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    Wouldn’t this be quite slow to transmit messages? When you send email between federated servers your mail goes in a queue on your server to be sent and depending on the connection speed and how busy it is you could easily wait 5 minutes before it’s delivered at the other end. Not that the messages caused by this app would be big enough to slow things down a lot, but if the server you are using is also being used to send normal emails with large attachments then you could end up waiting a while.

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Have not have serious delays here, but would this not delay thing not be the case with any other messenger ?

  • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    9 months ago

    How does it work ?

    And if I know someone e-mail why not send e-mail (I mean, I know it’s a pitty that nobody uses pgp over e-mail)

    • scorpionix@feddit.de
      2·
      9 months ago

      Because when it detects support for encryption or that you are talking to someone using DeltaChat as well, it switches automatically to encrypted conversations.

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      9 months ago

      DeltaChat uses AutoCrypt which needs no user interaction to immediately go for encryption. With traditional emailing with GnuPG and email one would first manually exchange GnuPG keys (or download them from a key server). With DeltaChat this is automated when both users use DeltaChat. With DeltaChat there is no real difference between emailing encrypted with another DeltaChat user, and emailing without encryption with another user which does not use DeltaChat.

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
    2·
    9 months ago

    My email would run out of storage pretty quickly as I don’t self-host email as it serves a different purpose not related to real-time communications for me. I’ll stick with XMPP.