I like to explore things that don’t need AWS to exist.
One is DeltaChat, which is quite neat, it feels like the nice utility of Telegram, but the novelty of something that is also being built.
I wanted to see if it would handle this website, that encrypts a message and creates a link to the message. I was unable to copy it out to clipboard, but I was able to retrieve the message I stored via passphrase.
I also learned about Reticulum and it’s no longer being supported publicly but likely to at least fork it and consider making some efforts towards understanding it, it’s also got the ability to make hardware telephones. The underlying protocol supports provides intelligible voice between 700bps and 3200bps.
I’m a big fan of Delta Chat, and run a couple of chatmail relays to help (in my small way) further the cause of decentralized secure communication. It’s so great to have a messaging option which doesn’t depend on Big Tech at all while still being resilient and globally available.
The chatmail team just recently released a Docker deployment option:
I think it’s still kind of experimental but it sounds like some folks are using it successfully. I’ve been meaning to give it a spin but haven’t found the time to do so yet.
