Some people in #Iran successfully use delta with national email providers when outside Internet is cut.
#deltachat designs are #OfflineFirst using delay tolerant protocols. Messages are queued when a path is blocked. email servers are made for this and run at planetary scale.
Messages crossing the border may arrive three days later but they arrive.
Peoples can stay in private touch across time and space, to the extent possible in current breakdown times. Which is what delta is about.
@kkarhan @delta @torproject There is also #SecureScuttleButt, but even though it's technically extremely interesting, they cannot seem to stop shooting in their own foot by being very confusing to onboard, having permanently outdated documentation, and almost impossible to find a community, unless you are ready to form your own.
It would be very cool to use for async interplanetary communication. Vernor Vinge's "Zones of Thought" book series describe a similar network on an intergalactic scale.
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Been there tried that and failed #SecureScuttleButt
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they actually are finally working on the documentation, websites, onboarding etc. right now and we have multiple clients being updated. Tildefriends is probably the only really polished one with good onboarding, but poncho-wonky, a patchwork fork by @soapdog and some others are also being worked on.
To connect to the existing community you need to get on the room servers and just follow random people there, or find peoples ssb cypherlink for example here in the fediverse.
one room server for example is here: https://www.tildefriends.net/~cory/room/
@ticho @kkarhan @delta @torproject
SSB documentation has never been outdated, there is simply lots of it to go around. Poncho wonky even bundles the whole protocol guide.
Onboarding is easy if you use the network for the use it was built for.
More important than that. SSB is not to be used against an adversarial government, it is not safe for that. It is a verifiable papertrail that is impossible to delete and can be traced back to a keypair. That is not the design goal.
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