Nov 9, 2026, 3:02 PM@delta That sucks. The biggest/only selling point for Delta Chat was that it could gracefully degrade for compatibility with literally 100% of the internet connected population.
- Nov 9, 2026, 3:02 PM
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Delta Chatdelta@chaos.socialNov 10, 2026, 11:03 AM@Adam Most if not all fresh onboarding with Delta happens without knowing there are IETF email protocols behind the 600+ federated relay network, compatible to many classic email providers and server. Delta Chat in the initial years tried to be also a reasonable email client, but that always was very limited compared to regular email clients. Thanks for your support during those years, and sorry it's dissapointing for you to see delta fully focusing on security/decentralized messaging now.
- Nov 10, 2026, 11:35 PM
@delta Focusing on decentralization and security is great, but it doesn't do any good if you cut people off from the rest of the world. I thought DC was following the internet's "progressive enhancement" methodology in order to give the entire SMTP communications ecosystem a way to modernize security & capabilities. That's what the world really needs. Or is that still possible, but you're cutting out all the other servers/clients before they can catch up?
- Delta Chatdelta@chaos.socialNov 11, 2026, 10:50 AM
@Adam Most people in the last 2 years onboarded on one of the many relays which enforce end-to-end encryption already. Others use their own mail server and that works well, as they can relax rate limits as needed.
Nothing is taken away from interoperability between mail servers.
Delta remains a messaging solution that allows IETF standard compliant server implementations to fully participate. We ceased to advertise delta as plaintext email client starting 2 years ago.
- Nov 11, 2026, 12:27 PM
@delta Ah, so it’s only the smtp client programs that don't support autocrypt that will be fully cut off from interoperability?