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Delta Chat is a new chat app that sends messages via e-mails, encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt. You do not have to sign up anywhere, just use your existing e-mail account with Delta Chat.
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What is the difference between this and Signal?
https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm
Shitballs! This thing uses mail for chat. It's RIDDLED with open standards.
I'm not even mad. I'm amazed. But I stand by my other comment.
Deltachat basically turns emails into instant messaging, so nobody needs to set up servers or instances, self hosters just need a working SMTP
Since the email traffic increases a lot (every message you send counts as an email), some providers might block your account after a very short while, on suspicion of some sort of bad behavior.
So... Its worse?
In some ways (initial configuration, relying on mail provider), yes.