I’m still skeptical of Delta Chat. Attachments are painfully base64-encoded. Many traditional providers have attachment & inbox size limits that could balloon when used as off-the-cuff as real-time chat, & delivery is slow–not to mention with email Google will love slurping up all the metadata & block self-hosters for half or more of your address book. It’s neat their take on encryption via autoencrypt for the mases & impressive getting fast delivery times on their new service listed in this article, but doesn’t this mean you need to be using either their infrastructure or setting up boxes just for this? At that rate wouldn’t you be better off handing off an XMPP address for decentralized, extensible, push-based chat without the limitations of email?
It’s neat their take on encryption via autoencrypt for the mases & impressive getting fast delivery times on their new service listed in this article, but doesn’t this mean you need to be using either their infrastructure or setting up boxes just for this?
Attachment and inbox size limits and delivery speeds may be an issue with “traditional” providers, but the most popular providers are not “traditional” and the one most people use works fine.
Is this the same as COI (which Delta Chat used to use)? I liked COI for the incremental migration path, but Signal has raised my expectations for what a chat system should provide (end to end encryption, no server-side data for harvesting, video chat, and so on)l
Not sure centralization of servers & metadata is a step up from email. I can also get an email address without giving over my phone number or having an Android/iOS primary device just to use the service.
I’m still skeptical of Delta Chat. Attachments are painfully base64-encoded. Many traditional providers have attachment & inbox size limits that could balloon when used as off-the-cuff as real-time chat, & delivery is slow–not to mention with email Google will love slurping up all the metadata & block self-hosters for half or more of your address book. It’s neat their take on encryption via autoencrypt for the mases & impressive getting fast delivery times on their new service listed in this article, but doesn’t this mean you need to be using either their infrastructure or setting up boxes just for this? At that rate wouldn’t you be better off handing off an XMPP address for decentralized, extensible, push-based chat without the limitations of email?
Attachment and inbox size limits and delivery speeds may be an issue with “traditional” providers, but the most popular providers are not “traditional” and the one most people use works fine.
Is this the same as COI (which Delta Chat used to use)? I liked COI for the incremental migration path, but Signal has raised my expectations for what a chat system should provide (end to end encryption, no server-side data for harvesting, video chat, and so on)l
Not sure centralization of servers & metadata is a step up from email. I can also get an email address without giving over my phone number or having an Android/iOS primary device just to use the service.
I belive it’s an email servhce provider designed to be used with DeltaChat.