Subj : w/o the govt, fed or China listening
To   : Arelor
From : Ogg
Date : Mon Jan 27 2025 08:06 pm

Hello Arelor!

 A> Stuff like WhatsApp is popular here because people does not
 A> need to manage credentials. You just feed it your phone
 A> number after downloading the App and you are set. You don't
 A> even need to exchange contacts because your friends already
 A> have your phone number. End users expect that sort of thing
 A> and Signal just provides that thing.

If the point was just to exchange private messages, deltachat  
on its server system could fill that gap.  people can exchange  
QR codes and/or simply enter the deltachat-specific email  
address provided.

But if people need the phone-calling options that Whatsapp and  
Signal offer, then that is a different need/application.

I have a friend who was set up quite fine with Telegram (Tg).   
Then she replaced her phone and needed to reestablish Tg  
contacts since she was using a new number.  Dunno why, but she  
said that my telegram.me/aabolins link wasn't finding me.  (Can  
anyone else here confirm?)  As far as I know, it still "finds"  
me and the user has the option to add me to their Tg - but she  
claims it is not working.  I am not sure if she succeeded in  
re-establishing her other Tg contacts.

Meanwhile, she wants me to use Signal!  :LOL:

But.. for now, protonmail seems like a simple solution.


 A> If a different solution needs you to generate an ID and
 A> exchange the ID with your peers, that solution is going to
 A> be less popular because lambs are not expecting that from a
 A> mobile messenger.

Yup.. must be the lamb senario with my friend.  But I didn't  
expect someone could fail sending me a message via Tg!

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