I hear a lot about Matrix being a truly decentralized protocol.
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Places burden of protecting one's identity onto end user. Anywhere else, if your account gets stolen, you can try contacting admins, changing password, logging out unknown devices. With @delta, user is one underportected device and QR scan away from unrecoverable grand theft account.
I find the trade-off fair and in fact quiet like it, but it assumes the end user is being careful and protects their device well. And in many cases users are, unfortunately, rather lousy with their gadgets and data.
> Anywhere else, if your account gets stolen, you can try contacting admins, changing password, logging out unknown devices
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> With delta, user is one underportected device and QR scan away from unrecoverable grand theft account.
worse case you tell everyone to kick the old profile from groups etc. and write to you from the new one
stealing your profile is not so easy unless you use phone without PIN, with multi-device as backup is hard to lose it
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I hear a lot about Matrix being a truly decentralized protocol. But if you register with an instance and it goes down, all users under that instance go down with it. It happened a couple of months ago @ matrix.com and everybody knows it.
Differently, Delta Chat allows users to register same account on different relays so if the main goes down, users can just switch relay and keep chatting.
That makes Delta Chat one step ahead. Prove me wrong.
#matrix #deltachat #messagingapp
These two projects adress very different kimds of chats. While I love DeltaChat
for 1:1 chats, or small groups, setting up a big group, where people may join, or leave at will, is a major PITA compared to Matrix.Matrix replaces Slack, Telegram, or Teams. Delta replaces Whatsapp, or Signal. Different goals, different solutions, and different tradeoffs.
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#matrix #deltachat #messagingapp
These two projects adress very different kimds of chats. While I love DeltaChat
for 1:1 chats, or small groups, setting up a big group, where people may join, or leave at will, is a major PITA compared to Matrix.Matrix replaces Slack, Telegram, or Teams. Delta replaces Whatsapp, or Signal. Different goals, different solutions, and different tradeoffs.
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Calls are experimental now and i do rely on Signal atm for them but there is work on progress and will be implemented properly with next releases.
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I hear a lot about Matrix being a truly decentralized protocol. But if you register with an instance and it goes down, all users under that instance go down with it. It happened a couple of months ago @ matrix.com and everybody knows it.
Differently, Delta Chat allows users to register same account on different relays so if the main goes down, users can just switch relay and keep chatting.
That makes Delta Chat one step ahead. Prove me wrong.
@ggrey Oh I just experienced this!! the instance I was regirstered on went down! no more Matrix for me
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I hear a lot about Matrix being a truly decentralized protocol. But if you register with an instance and it goes down, all users under that instance go down with it. It happened a couple of months ago @ matrix.com and everybody knows it.
Differently, Delta Chat allows users to register same account on different relays so if the main goes down, users can just switch relay and keep chatting.
That makes Delta Chat one step ahead. Prove me wrong.
Exactly why we promoted Delta Chat in Iran.
When a server gets blocked, users simply switch to another relay without losing history or contacts seamless migration Matrix doesn't have yet.Plus Delta Chat servers are lightweight and anyone can run one. Agreed, it's one step ahead.
Take a lesson from free software.
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