Delta Chat @delta@chaos.social

After persevering through some 100 "e-mail compatibility" issues the new 1.20 release series is rolling ... with support for html-mail, mailing lists and alias-forwarded e-mails ... https://delta.chat/en/2021-05-05-email-compat -- maybe try using Delta as your e-mail app and let us know how it goes?

We are coming out of pandemic retreats Real Soon Now (tm), bringing lots and lots of good release news ... meanwhile please all stay well and don't forget to retreat from all the digital things and enjoy the outsides :)

We are living already in the future. Or which other projects have their production apps on all platforms based on @rustlang@twitter.com ? Likely, 2021is the year for us to reap and give back visible benefits. What many don't realize: Rust fundamentally eases *loose collaboration*.

The silence you are hearing here is because we are gathering to prepare for new releases and features on all platforms, tackling some long standing issuses and feature requests. And some of us are currently isolated far out and enjoying an in-person corona-respecting gathering :)

We are less faceless now! Thankfully @accessnow@twitter.com intervened with Facebook on our behalf and managed to lift the three month blockade on mentioning our websites (URLs). Note that our our complete hosting can be down without a single Delta Chat user using connectivity. Relax :)

e-mail is a nearby-technology with planetary-scale connectivity, in a *socially* decentered way. Hold together by bubblegum and sticks. There is no project in sight that could "replace e-mail" (tm). We suggest to embrace and amend. Yes, it's a mess but it's also fun :)

Contrary to virtually all other messaging efforts we are engaging in a weird past-reality branching operation. Instead of moving forward we head back to past stages of techno-social development. And then we branch off to different realities aka: futures how we want them. Plurals.

Outlook/hotmail.com have been a bit out there on Mars, measured by more earthly e-mail standards. We just landed a PR that will bring users from these martian servers into Delta Chat orbit, to be released soon (tm). Congrats with all the landings today! :) https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/pull/2250

Note that we consider us to just begin to get rolling and are still evolving the Rust/JS/Java/Swift/Python coding, translations, testing etc. We are aware of several shortcomings and are trying to address them. Any help welcome! https://github.com/deltachat or https://support.delta.chat

Last month 32K installs happened through Google Play, another 70K installs from other counting stores plus many uncounted ones from F-Droid and direct apk downloads ... OMG, our servers are choking!1!! Just joking ... there are no Delta chat servers, and there is no spoon :)

To be clear, we welcome these other efforts and startups. They all contribute to a lively e-mail ecosystem. It didn't all end with GMail :) There is a wild variety and diversity around e-mail. But please press for interoperability to avoid lock-in schemes and sustain competition!

Each of @heyhey@twitter.com @ProtonMail@twitter.com @TutanotaTeam@twitter.com @SpikeNowHQ@twitter.com come with their own apps *and* servers. By contrast, Delta Chat apps use the e-mail server of *your* choice and have provider-independent e2e-encryption through https://autocrypt.org - implemented also by other e-mail apps.

Je nützlicher Delta Chat als e-mail app wird (und wir verbessern das gerade stark) um so besser läßt sich die Zeit überbrücken, bis auch andere aus dem Kontaktkreis sich das mal installieren.