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   Delta Chat (delta@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Nov-2025 20:13:28 JST Delta Chat

   We hereby challenge _all_ other messaging apps, FOSS or not, to provide a more convenient private onboarding experience than #deltachat

   1. Install app
   2. "Create new profile"
   3. Enter nick name, tap "Agree and continue"
   4. Tap "+" and "new contact" and provide/scan qr code/link

   Voila! A secure private chat, familiar to those coming from Whatsapp or Telegram (without "AI", with #a11y).

   Note: chat identities are private and can not be queried or discovered. Servers keep no track or metadata

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     Dusty (d1@autistics.life)'s status on Sunday, 02-Nov-2025 22:50:20 JST Dusty

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     @delta I agree, #Deltachat is awesome for superfast account creation, then sharing the account by QR code. No password set or stored, no phone number or email given, no password manager grumbled about necessitating

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     Delta Chat (delta@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Nov-2025 10:56:19 JST Delta Chat

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     • Frederik Braun �

     @freddy servce choice is a tricky question right now and one which we carefully avoid confronting initial users with, during the default onboarding experience. Right now, we regard it as safe to use any of the listed https://chatmail.at/relays (manually curated). We are working towards "randomized" onboarding by further minimizing metadata seen by relays, and introduce multi-relay support so that choices don't easily leave you stranded in case of blocking/failure.

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     Frederik Braun � (freddy@social.security.plumbing)'s status on Monday, 03-Nov-2025 10:56:29 JST Frederik Braun �

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     @delta Surely, I am not the only one blocked on the decision which server to pick for a new account and what kind of trust in metadata goes into the server?

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