I would say this is the normal behavior and without this apps wouldn’t work properly or connect in background, ex. to receive messages in chat apps and display a notification ex. when the system wakes them up via push notifications

I already explained in my previous message how it is different from Signal, time to read buddy, bye

Meanwhile me not giving a F about this news because I use CalyxOS and the feature to auto-restart the phone on inactivity with fine customizable time and not a fixed 3 days exist since a long time already there

The purpose is already said in the title: private chats for the family

How you don’t understand the use case of chatting with the family?

As many other chat apps out there, if you meant the “why this one and not X?” Well there are other acceptable options out there, the advantage of this one compared to WhatsApp, Telegram and co. Is that it doesn’t depend on phone numbers or any private data, getting started with the app is painless and smooth, no SMS verification no captcha solving or complex registration, just set your name and start chatting. It is decentralized and anonymous, while having a nice polished UI easy to use on the level of WhatsApp and Telegram, unlike most other alternatives out there

One special feature is the ability to use in-chat mini-apps that are completely “p2p e2ee” between chat members without depending on any server hosting it and working offline first, among such apps: collaborative editor pads, checklists/to-do lists, shopping lists, split bills with friends, chess and other mini-games etc

FairMail is for classic unsecure email, DeltaChat is for secure end-to-end encrypted chatting

Delta Chat no where to be found there 🤔

In iOS you can use Delta Chat (https://delta.chat/) ArcaneChat is a Delta Chat client

thanks for the help! (btw, it is not only mastodon.social, ex. see this post https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/114200292372832736)

It is also possible to run GUI desktops in Termux since ages, for example take a look at:

AnLinux (Run Linux On Android Without Root Access) https://f-droid.org/packages/exa.lnx.a/

It was also possible to run a “full Debian” using PRoot etc

1. if they leaked something you wouldn’t know because US government law doesn’t allow them to disclose if they requested data.
2. uses AWS servers that also the gov could ask for access to Amazon directly without even talking to Signal, being centralized and depending on AWS infra is also a weakness.
3. needing phone numbers to register, often tied to passport and it is super easy to get your whole network when compromising 1 device
4. all centralized services start nice, attracting users, once they have you, and money starts being a problem… meet: enshitification

Or the classic “guys I am leaving WhatsApp, moved my whole family to Signal, another centralized US-based silo that requires phone numbers and runs on AWS, CloudFlare, etc.”

Sure thing! ArcaneChat is decentralized: https://github.com/ArcaneChat/server

Yes

I feel so seen, users often directly drop a lot of new feature requests just when I am announcing a new upcoming feature. And no one is donating to me while I even pay servers for them.

ArcaneChat is a Delta Chat client and uses the Delta Chat core (which contains all the crypto and logic and any app can use to implement e2ee IM) and it is based in the Delta Chat client, which has been audited around 6 times over the years: https://delta.chat/en/help#security-audits

For iOS you can use Delta Chat: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/delta-chat/id1459523234

It is compatible with ArcaneChat

For sure!! The app is decentralized/federated. You can host your own server: https://github.com/ArcaneChat/chatmail

And some 3rd party servers are discoverable inside the app at registration time.

The app can also be used with classic email servers so if you have an email server you can use it as well with ArcaneChat

If what you want is private/secure encrypted email that the provider itself can not even read, I recommend you arcanechat.me

no, there is no important metadata leaked via headers, the only obvious data the server knows is the same as on Matrix and XMPP, when you tell the server to deliver the message to a given user, the server hence knows that X sent a message to Y, but since accounts are randomly generated email addresses without any personal data tied, this is more secure than Signal where phone numbers are collected by a central server and if they wanted to they can match your IP to your phone number even if you use sealed sender to send it is obvious who you are by your IP and timing since you also connect to the server non-anonymously to receive messages

at the moment there is not “integrated calls” that would cause the phone to ring, but it is planed, but what is available is calls/video-calls invitations in-chat that show a nice “Foo invited you to a video call” message in chat with a button to join but on click it just open the call room in Jitsi Meet app or web browser