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

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Joined 4 years ago
Cake day: February 7th, 2021
  • adbenitez@lemmy.mlBanned from communityOPtoAndroid@lemmy.world•time to switch to DeltaChat 😁English
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    1 day 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
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    1 day 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.mlBanned from communityOPtoAndroid@lemmy.world•ArcaneChat: Private chats for the familyEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Threema is paid (registration tied to payment is already bad for privacy, most people will not register with some crypto-coin etc) and centralized, any centralized service is vulnerable to enshitification, none of them start evil, also it is easier to block by authoritarian governments and can’t be used in a sovereign/independent way (ex. own independent server in a local community)

    Session: it has been a long time since I last used Session, at the time my impression was that it was a bit hacky and it was draining my battery and using a lot of mobile data, more importantly Session doesn’t seem to have multi-account support, also doesn’t seem to support using your own independent server “off-the-grid”. Session groups have a limit of only 100 members while in ArcaneChat groups can have 1000 members for now (or even more depending on the server you use, ex. your own)

    none of them have in-chat collaborative/interactive apps (ex. collaborative editor, calendar, shopping lists, split bills, polls, etc.) and games that can be used even while offline