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   Delta Chat (delta@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 01:55:59 JST Delta Chat

   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 ( https://chatmail.at/relays ) 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 https://chaos.social/@delta/115362144863345662

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 31-Oct-2025 03:50:50 JST feld

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     • vermaden
     @vermaden @delta @treefit it is now officially in the ports tree
     
     however, I'm unsure when packages will be widely available as they're fighting over the current situation with electron because the builds are being very problematic and disrupting the build cluster's stability
     
     https://www.freshports.org/net-im/deltachat-desktop/
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 31-Oct-2025 03:50:52 JST feld

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     • vermaden
     @treefit @vermaden @delta I have it packaged I have to wait for the next stable release tho because the core is ported separately and I updated it to the latest tag but it wasn't a stable release yet 🫠
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     vermaden (vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 31-Oct-2025 03:50:52 JST vermaden

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     • feld

     @feld @delta @treefit

     Thanks - did not know that.

     Now I need to find a friend (or company) that would use Delta Chat as 'the' communication medium :p

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     treefit (treefit@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 31-Oct-2025 03:50:53 JST treefit

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     • feld

     @vermaden @delta you can make #DeltaChat desktop work on #FreeBSD

     you can build it yourself https://support.delta.chat/t/delta-chat-on-freebsd/2948

     Or wait a bit, because @feld is working on making a real package for it.

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     vermaden (vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 31-Oct-2025 03:50:54 JST vermaden

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     @delta

     ...but there is one thing that #Deltachat does not provide while it works perfectly fine with #Signal ... the desktop client that works on #FreeBSD and is available in #FreeBSD pkg(8) packages.

     The 'web' approach (such as https://web.whatsapp.com for WhatsApp) would also satisfy my needs - I can use a client in the browser - but if there is no 'native' client and no browser client option for #FreeBSD - that means total NO-GO for me.