You can now also choose to just be assigned a new email account when you start using Delta Chat (only drawback is that you can’t send unencrypted emails with that email account so you can’t use it for anything other than chatting)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, cool. TBH I don't think that's a drawback, just customised to the very specific usage. So you get a [email protected] email or something?

[–] amzd -1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

You can choose any chatmail server just like when you sign up for lemmy you can choose which instance you’re gonna have your account on. And you can also run your own instance and allow people to sign up on there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

I'm not going to lie, "chatmail" made me snort 😄

Using mail protocols for chat always seemed like a natural, pragmatic solution to a problem that people have been overthinking for decades.

Back when I tried Delta first, it was a bit janky (can it really be 10+ years ago?), so I'm glad they've smoothed out the kinks and getting people onboard more easily.

[–] autonomoususer -3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

If you struggle making a new email address, this is not for you.

[–] amzd 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yea but not in vc debt so without the incentive to sell out users

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

What VC money has Matrix taken? Genuinely curious

[–] amzd 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

30 million dollars https://element.io/blog/element-raises-30m-as-matrix-explodes/

You can argue that element is not matrix but you’re fooling yourself. Others even have to look at how element implements stuff instead of following the matrix spec

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Good to know, thank you for the link