Notices tagged with deltachat

El #softwarelibre es mucho más que líneas de código accesibles. Es un movimiento que promueve la #libertad, la #colaboración y el respeto a la #privacidad del usuario. Pero, ¿estamos realmente practicando lo que predicamos? Al promover el software libre, también tenemos la responsabilidad de educar a nuestra comunidad sobre las implicaciones éticas de las herramientas que utilizamos.

Es común encontrar a entusiastas del software libre utilizando servicios de grandes corporaciones como Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple o Microsoft (GAFAM y compañía). Si bien estos servicios pueden ser convenientes por su alto número de usuario, es importante recordar que sus modelos de negocio se basan en la recopilación y monetización de nuestros datos personales. Al utilizar estas plataformas, estamos contribuyendo a un sistema que socava los principios fundamentales del software libre.

¿Qué podemos hacer?

• Diversificar nuestros canales: Exploremos y promovamos alternativas libres y respetuosas con la privacidad. Plataformas como Mastodon, PeerTube o Nextcloud ofrecen servicios similares a los gigantes tecnológicos, pero sin comprometer nuestros valores.
• Fomentar el autohospedaje: Enseñemos a nuestra comunidad a autohospedar sus servicios. Esto no solo garantiza un mayor control sobre nuestros datos, sino que también fortalece la infraestructura de la red libre. Obviamente siempre y cuando nuestras capacidades económicas y técnicas lo permitan. Sería como tener nuestra propia casa en el #fediverso.
• Promover la educación: Organizemos talleres, charlas y escribamos tutoriales para ayudar a otros a migrar a servicios libres y a comprender los beneficios del autohospedaje.

El Fediverso es un ejemplo perfecto de una red social descentralizada y libre. Al unirnos a una instancia de Mastodon o a cualquier otro servicio compatible, podemos construir comunidades auténticas y respetuosas con la privacidad. Así como también utilizar herramientas de mensajería como #XMPP o #DeltaChat por nombrar un par.

La promoción del software libre es una responsabilidad compartida. Al elegir conscientemente las herramientas que utilizamos y al educar a nuestra comunidad, podemos construir un ecosistema digital más justo y equitativo. ¡No se trata solo de utilizar software libre, sino de vivirlo!

Les dejo por aquí algunas preguntas, espero su interacción todo aporte es bienvenido:

• ¿Qué pasos estás dando para reducir tu dependencia de los servicios privativos?
• ¿Has explorado el Fediverso? te invito a que compartas tu experiencia.
• Ayúdanos a difundir este mensaje. Si los líderes de tu comunidad no le prestan mucha atención a este tema, motivarlos a que es importante sería un gran paso.

#Activismo #ActivityPub #Educación #Fediverso #GNULinux #LibreTICs #Mastodon #PeerTube #Privacidad #SoftwareLibre

@oceane @lrvick oh, we are very much working with and for people in heavily repressive situations and they often use #deltachat when signal, threema, WhatsApp don't work .... And even if they do. Why? Because our apps provide instant onboarding without phone numbers, multi-profile and multi-device support and a pretty secure audited and analysed key management protocol without key servers. Plus support for state of the art circumvention proxying. There is a whole lot more than PFS to consider.

@strypey @praveen @snikket_im The great thing about #deltachat is that it already uses the largest federated platform on the planet, email :) When users are both using the client conversations are automatically encrypted, and when they're not, you can still send messages to regular emails:)

Just posting this here for others that may be following this conversation delta.chat/en/

Regardless, great choice working with XMPP and all the best!

@strypey @praveen My wish for #deltachat is that they would lean into the email aspect by making it a full-fledged email client that also has direct chat support.

I think this way, anyone that already understands how alternative email clients work would be more likely to install it to replace what they're already using.

It would effectively be bundling two "different" services into one:)

Just my two cents:)

Hello there ! :)

Do you know if someone is working on use #webxdc in #matrix ?

Actually I wonder how how much it's the same as widget? 🤔

#deltachat and #xmpp can already use it ! 😁

I didn't see this coming. #DeltaChat is discussing to implement a feature that that other messengers already have: #RFC9078
I never expected this to happen. 🥳

https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/issues/2401

A major milestone in our 6+ years long project history: With the rolling 1.46 #deltachat app releases you can start chatting without a pre-existing e-mail address, and benefit from push notifications (instant message delivery) also on Android. We also highlight ways to get in contact with bots and humans, and how #chatmail makes e-mail cheap again https://delta.chat/en/2024-05-31-instant-onboarding

Good news: The NLnet foundation, by means of the NGI0 Entrust fund, is supporting the implementation of Webxdc in DeltaTouch: https://nlnet.nl/project/DeltaTouch/

A release with basic support is planned for around September (rough estimation).

#DeltaTouch #NLnet #Webxdc #DeltaChat

As disclosed by the Delta Chat Team today (link below), several security issues were fixed in the deltachat-core-rust library. The version of the library containing the fixes is incorporated in DeltaTouch 1.4.0 as released on March 6.

It's strongly advised to update to DeltaTouch version 1.4.0, if you haven't already.

Impressive work by the DC Team and ETH Zürich, check out the blog post: https://delta.chat/en/2024-03-25-crypto-analysis-securejoin

#DeltaTouch #DeltaChat

🚨 Größere Überarbeitung der Messenger-Matrix:
- App-Icons hinzugefügt
- aTox entfernt, Viber hinzugefügt
- Neue Kategorie "Benutzbarkeit"
- Neues Kriterium "Post-Quantum Verschlüsselung"
- Diverse Aktualisierungen

https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix.html

#messenger #briar #conversations #deltachat #discord #element #matrix #imessage #jami #signal #simplex #siskin #skype #telegram #threema #viber #whatsapp #wire

New release 1.4.0 of DeltaTouch, now in the OpenStore.

Features:
👍 Reactions! Long press a message to react with an emoji.
💠 Many small bugfixes, adjustments and refactorings.

Full list of changes in the changelog, see https://codeberg.org/lk108/deltatouch/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG

#DeltaTouch #DeltaChat #UbuntuTouch

#deltachat just got four major usability improvements as the 1.44 releases are rolling out
💗 Reactions on all platforms
💗 iOS Push notifications
💗 Multi-account desktop sidebar
💗 share invite links via other messengers. Enjoy :)
https://delta.chat/en/2024-03-12-jumbo44

The last #deltachat 1.44 release round did not only contain a lot of UI/UX milestones but also 20 security fixes based on a deep analysis from Yuanming Song and colleagues of the Applied Cryptography group at ETH Zuerich https://delta.chat/en/2024-03-25-crypto-analysis-securejoin

Given the experiences of the last decade it's healthy to distrust #decentralized tech if

- it's mainly developed by a centralized power structure
- the involved technology is very complex
- there is coin or VC funding involved

#deltachat has 1/100th, if even that, of what other popular messenging projects have in terms of moneys. But our distributed top-notch expertise in UI, crypto, networking tech and our federated collaborative practises across these concerns, try to make up for it ...

@ada depends...

Why I should use #Matrix when #Zulip, #IRC and #XMPP+#OMEMO and #DeltaChat (#eMail + #PGP/MIME) exist is beyond me.

Whereas :activitypub: and it's implementations do make sense considering how :birdsite: :twitter: went :deadbird: ...

While certain platform billionaires chatter about "everything" or "super" app architectures, we prefer to deliver and improve them — message "Hi" to xstore@testrun.org :)
#deltachat #webxdc

https://delta.chat/en/2023-08-11-xstore#23

@KekunPlazas @garrett
well, theoretically, there is #XMPP, but I think the community has long lost interest in developing the standard, clients, and servers :(
Oh, and there is email, of course. With #deltachat providing a "chatty" UI on top of the email transport.