cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26007254
ArcaneChat is a FLOSS private and secure messenger focused on privacy and friendly user experience.
💬 Reliable instant messaging with multi-profile and multi-device support.
⚡️ Sign-up easily and anonymously, no phone number or any private data required.
🎮 Interactive mini-apps in chats for gaming, shopping lists, productivity and collaboration.
🔒 End-to-end encrypted chats safe against network and server attacks.
ArcaneChat is a Delta Chat client and it is compatible with other Delta Chat clients.
Source code: https://github.com/ArcaneChat/
if you don’t even see the problem, I am not even sure it is worth to try to talk about it… ex. a private 1:1 chat in Matrix is a “room” the whole experience of starting a private chat with your mom is a series of “foo invited bar to room”, “bar joined the room”, etc. besides easy to end up in a state where not even you can read your own messages the famous “unable to decrypt”
Signal depends on phone numbers, if you are talking about setting a nick-name (which Telegram supports since ages) that doesn’t mean anything a phone number is still required, just as in Telegram, and it is not an argument against my point that talked about the need for a SIM card.
it is a con, period.
bots are supported and welcome, just as on Telegram, bots can’t spam people because, unlike on Signal with the phone numbers problem, in ArcaneChat people can’t just write to you randomly, they need your contact’s invitation link. Also in worse case, migrating your address is possible and cheap, you can have many accounts as you want and also create accounts temporarily to interact “in the wild”
yes, ArcaneChat is a Delta Chat client, and the Delta Chat app and core has received several audits (six over the past of years so far), any Delta Chat client using the Delta Chat core benefits from the security audits, you can read about it here: https://chaos.social/@delta/113963707915543266 unlike many of the mentioned clients that don’t have any known security audit at all?
could you tell me what is wrong with it? my address is show in the terms & privacy policy / GDPR, but I admittedly am not well informed in German law topics, so if you could point me in the right direction I would be really grateful
post-data: please don’t read my reply as a aggressive discussion, I am just providing arguments, not trying to fight unknown people in the Internet, and I appreciate you took your time to reply, have a nice day!