Thank you, updated with that link

That’s sad to hear

Thank you for suggesting it

I just noticed reading their forum that they plan to include calls support in the next release https://support.delta.chat/t/help-testing-upcoming-delta-chat-release-with-calls/4220

Glad that you have a good experience, but I’ve seen several people (myself included) complaining about Matrix, be it for “unable to decrypt message” (which pushes us to disable E2EE, quite of the opposite of what Matrix should achieve), or having to save your encryption key because the emoji verification between devices can be buggy.

I’m talking in a case where people all belong to different servers, it must be different if you self host the servers for your family

Piefed has those built in

• !casualconversation@piefed.social
• !wholesome@reddthat.com
• !nicememes@sopuli.xyz

Hobby communities

Isn’t Fedora KDE more recommended now that Mint doesn’t provide a KDE variant?

Opportunity to promote !askgaming@piefed.social

Indeed. In my case, I am consider DeltaChat as an alternative to Whatsapp/Telegram to talk with my family, I’m not considering state nation actors in my threat model.

The email address is also randomly generated (think 342rstxa12@server.tld), so that’s a pro.

Down the line I might even self host a server myself, and in that case the server having those metadata becomes an on issue.

Self-hostability is good compared to Signal.

The smooth onboarding experience makes it easier to adopt than Matrix.

Unlike most other messengers, Delta Chat apps do not store any metadata about contacts or groups on servers, also not in encrypted form. Instead, all group metadata is end-to-end encrypted and stored on end-user devices, only.

Servers can therefore only see:

• the message date -sender and receiver addresses
• and message size.

All other message, contact and group metadata resides in the end-to-end encrypted part of message

https://delta.chat/en/help#message-metadata