I don’t understand why it took us 50 years to figure out how to do encrypted messaging-over-email. Anyone wanna swap email addresses?
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It’s a neat idea, but it gives me more questions and answers:
- Why send messages (encrypted or not) across multiple providers that get to see who you are communicating with, when you are communicating, and how often you are communicating?
(i.e. why not just use a dedicated messaging app that we know doesn’t suck?) - What will this do to your traditional email inbox?
- What about Protonmail or other email services that doesn’t directly connect to conventional email protocols?
Why send messages (encrypted or not) across multiple providers that get to see who you are communicating with, when you are communicating, and how often you are communicating? (i.e. why not just use a dedicated messaging app that we know doesn’t suck?)
who do you KNOW doesn’t suck? myself, i like disroot, but i still prefer to encrypt any comms that go across their services, because i can’t explicitly trust them. i don’t even (really) trust riseup.net. it’s always best to encrypt anything thats sensitive yourself and control the keys.
There’s still a big metadata problem with email in general, and if you are using services tied to activism, situations like the one that happened to Mastodon could just as easily happen to you.
The trouble with email is baked into email itself, versus private messaging apps that use a protocol that was designed for the express purpose of chats that don’t require one or more servers to retain them…
- Why send messages (encrypted or not) across multiple providers that get to see who you are communicating with, when you are communicating, and how often you are communicating?
The UI is just a WhatsApp rip lol
În their defense, almost all messengers look the same. They just didn’t bother to change the color scheme.
I really like Delta Chat as a concept. I’m not sure I could convince my friends to use it, as most of them struggle with signing on to email on anything other than a dedicated mail client from their providers.
