Usually when alternatives for messaging apps are recommended it’s Signal, Threema or Element but all of them still seem to have small inconveniences (Signal is American, Threema isn’t free and Element just seems too complicated).

Today I stumbled upon Delta Chat for the first time and it seems to be the ideal solution. It’s european, free, open-source, decentralised, usable on almost any device and privacy focused. But the fact that I’ve never heard about it before makes me hesitant.

Has anyone of you used it and can share their experience?

Edit: Here’s a link to their official website: https://delta.chat/en/

  • madnificent@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I use Signal, Matrix and recently Delta Chat. The latter with only very limited amount of messages. It seems to just work.

    The UI is less complex than Element in my opinion but it lacks some extra features such as voice and video calls (which probably should be a separate thing). Onboarding was simple enough if you actually want to try, but hard enough for naysayers to say it will never catch on.

    • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip
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      3 days ago

      Calls are being added at the moment, they are still in beta, but I’ve used them a few times, it works okay.