Post #3334957

2026-06-16 19:29 UTC

Telegram is an extreme security risk for its users, its developers and operators, holding data and metadata for over a billion people on central servers! Our decentralized zero-metadata messaging approach is diametrically opposed to such big-platform designs https://delta.chat/en/2026-03-31-zero But there is more: #chatmail relays are zero-state: you can wipe the relay's disks, create a new fresh setup, and users just continue chatting. Operators have actually done this. An *actually* state-less server :)

Replies (8)

@mvilain@sfba.social 2026-06-16 20:21

@delta@chaos.social Luckily the only thing I used Telegram for was to send me a link to download F-Droid.

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@b_rain@troet.cafe 2026-06-16 20:22

@delta@chaos.social Love the hand-drawn illustrations! :blobbear_heartcute:

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@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social 2026-06-16 20:25

@delta@chaos.social congrats, that's some great progress!

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@bjornsdottirs@evokegts.umbrellix.org 2026-06-16 20:44

@delta@chaos.social wouldn't that be state-optional technically?

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@coltn@mastodon.social 2026-06-16 21:28

@delta@chaos.social amazing work! delta chat works incredibly well on my non-touch sonim X320. I really hope that keeping the chat client working with non-touch devices is seen as an accessibility feature. Since the latest release it actually fixed some of the issues I had without touch screen. I'll send a small donation, and I recommend delta chat to all of my friends.

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@STP_KITT@mastd.racing 2026-06-16 21:53

@delta@chaos.social I used Delta Chat since it's invention, but I just deinstalled it, since I gave up hope for it to get an option to prevent others deleting messages on *my* devices!!! The other thing that prevented adoption at least for group chats is that there can't be firm admins for groups. There's great work in Delta Chat & it made huge progress over the years, but forcing remote message deletion & unlimited editing onto all users is an absolute no-go.

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@novarivera@mastodon.social 2026-06-17 00:12

@delta@chaos.social bro you use email. Metadata to the max.

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@nils@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-06-19 10:53

@delta@chaos.social the more I read about #deltachat the more I like it! Really happy to see so much progress. Do you welcome contributions? I've been a bit annoyed by the unability to mute live location sharing notifications every minutes. Deltachat really is the only viable #FOSS option for live location sharing between Android and iOS that I could find, thank you so much for that!

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