Developer of ArcaneChat (https://arcanechat.me/)

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Cake day: February 7th, 2021
  • adbenitez@lemmy.mlBanned from communityOPtoAndroid@lemmy.world•time to switch to DeltaChat 😁English
    115·
    15 days ago

    and btw, wait for your family to want to migrate their account from one phone to another ex. from Android to iPhone or the other way around, this is easy and smooth in Delta Chat, and it is a pain or plain impossible in most other apps including Signal where I have hear more than one saying they just lost all their chat history in a migration

  • adbenitez@lemmy.mlBanned from communityOPtoAndroid@lemmy.world•time to switch to DeltaChat 😁English
    217·
    15 days ago

    I don’t think so, literally, Signal installation is much complex, first your family need to solve a CAPTCHA, then enter phone number, SMS code etc. in Delta Chat they directly just set an avatar and name and that is it, for getting in contact they just scan each other’s QR or tap in the menu and click “invite friend” then they can send their invitation link in the WhatsApp family group

    I think the more important part here is not to do the same mistake again, switching from WhatsApp to Signal is not solving the actual problem, you are switching from one centralized phone-number-based American server to the other and nothing prevents the later to end up in the same situation in a couple of years

  • adbenitez@lemmy.mlOPMtoArcaneChat@lemmy.ml•time to switch to ArcaneChat/DeltaChat 😁English
    21·
    15 days ago
    • ArcaneChat/DeltaChat apk size is way smaller, Element X is ~130MB
    • reactions are not encrypted in Matrix, plus often problems with “unable to decrypt”
    • with the money you need to run a matrix server you can run a lot of chatmail servers, the cost per user is much lower
    • matrix servers hold a lot of metadata, ex. group metadata and state, it is almost impossible to really delete information from the matrix server, the chatmail servers are dumb, know nothing about delta chat groups and all data is volatile, only stored temporarily for multi-device synchronization
    • ArcaneChat/DeltaChat have good multi-device and multi-profile support, IIRC Element only support one profile?

    and more, but to be honest I feel lazy to reply because the answer seems so obvious to me, just search a bit, and I am not even touching the part of the proprietary integration server… matrix is on a path to doom

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