Post #1303125
2026-04-12 13:00 UTC
I am very sorry for you to need to cope with this:
the best option for private chatting TODAY when it comes to #security, usability/user-friendly, #resilience, #digitalindependence and #freedom is #DeltaChat a chat app that uses #SMTP + #IMAP at its backbone, not your favorite "perfect" chat protocol, you don't need new better protocols, you need tools that actually work for the people
#xmpp #matrix #simplex #signal
Replies (2)
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@liaizon@social.wake.st 2026-04-12 13:42
@adbenitez@mastodon.de currently notifications are incredibly unreliable. I would love to use it more but when I cant be sure if the app will reliably tell me I got a message it makes that very hard.
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@pixelschubsi@troet.cafe 2026-04-12 22:00
@adbenitez@mastodon.de It's easy to say that one doesn't need better protocols after those better protocols have become so ubiquitous that you don't even realize how you're using them yourself. Apple APNS and Google FCM use #XMPP technology to deliver push messages instantly. All the other messengers listed (#Signal, #Element, #DeltaChat) thus use XMPP technology. Everyone uses XMPP, but when it is about marketing, suddenly XMPP is not necessary.