Delta Chat

Last week four new #chatmail relays popped up from four different continents from four different entities.
Permission-free interoperability based on #cryptography ... That's how we like it and how it generally is with the email system: separation of transport and apps. App developers can't access messages, and relay operators can not break e2ee encryption. Fwiw May 14th there is another round at a #Moscow court where our lawyers will convey this impossibility for #deltachat to hand over data.

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@tudbut there are 100+ people groups which function well. Anything beyond that needs testing but delta chat apps themselves do not impose limits.

@rakoo surely, "trust" is a highly problematic term. It's not only Delta Chat developers, but also the many packaged dependencies, along with the operating system environments our apps run in, which the "trustability" of the overall messaging UX depends on. But the argument from @gordon correctly states that end-to-end #cryptography helps to not have to trust all the intermediate machines messages are passing through.

1 cent per five years .... is the current marginal hosting cost for a #chatmail address, with which #deltachat apps facilitate world-wide private messaging including interactive #webxdc apps that run end-to-end encrypted in any chat group.

<1 Million EUR per year is the estimated marginal hosting costs for 350 Million EU citizens. Such scaling requires, however, research and development, including careful UX and #cryptography work. Related writing from @gordon

https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/cryptography-scales-trust

Yesterday, 20 people from the https://safesisters.org community onboarded with #DeltaChat in Lusaka, Zambia. Everything worked! Usability, privacy and #OfflineFirst ops were appreciated and #webxdc app based organizing met strong interest. Many participants engage in addressing challenges from surveillance state actors, family and partner abuse. Moreover, people with visual impairment were happy about Android's screen reader support.

It's events like this that validate our efforts!

#africa

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Many larger FOSS projects publish team profiles with titles and roles, presidents and heads, and leads of this and that.

Does a FOSS community need that to thrive and deliver?

We work a lot in public: Git repositories, PR flows, conference talks and sessions, support forum discussions, blogs and fediverse posts.

There are also many private invite-only contributor group chats, invisible to attackers, where people typically have met in person and know each other.
No kings or votes ;)

@kskarthik we are aware of the importance of native calls for mass usage. Webrtc is discussed and also
@n0iroh based solutions because we use it already for P2P #webxdc realtime data channels. But someone experienced with #rustlang focusing on this call area would be helpful, and could lead to relatively quick results, likely.

We have several ground breaking developments going on in the background, and frankly, it's sometimes hard to not pre-announce them excitedly :)

However, we struggle to acquire public funding after the OTF contract broke away in February. Current need is around ~50K per month for ~10 people. , and we would like to support some contributors to switch their day job.

Fallback: even if funding dries up, #deltachat is bound to continue to work. It's pretty maintainable and intrinsically motivated.