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ArcaneChat

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Private chats for the family ๐Ÿฅณ

ArcaneChat is a private and secure messenger focused on privacy and friendly user experience.

ArcaneChat is a Delta Chat client and it is compatible with other Delta Chat clients.

Learn more at: https://arcanechat.me/

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[โ€“] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[โ€“] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
  • 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

[โ€“] nordiesta@europe.pub 2 points 1 day ago

I'm sold! Installing it ASAP ๐Ÿ’œ