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Delta Chat is a new chat app that sends messages via e-mails, encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt. You do not have to sign up anywhere, just use your existing e-mail account with Delta Chat.
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What is the difference between this and Signal?
Shitballs! This thing uses mail for chat. It's RIDDLED with open standards.
I'm not even mad. I'm amazed. But I stand by my other comment.
to start with, Signal is centralized (and prune to change business model and privacy policy any time in the future) requires phone numbers, not anonymous, bad multi-device support, hard to have multiple accounts (does it has multi-account support at all?)
Deltachat basically turns emails into instant messaging, so nobody needs to set up servers or instances, self hosters just need a working SMTP
Since the email traffic increases a lot (every message you send counts as an email), some providers might block your account after a very short while, on suspicion of some sort of bad behavior.
So... Its worse?
In some ways (initial configuration, relying on mail provider), yes.
https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm