Astian, Inc1d ago
Delta Chat

What if all public funding and all private donations to our efforts stop tomorrow?

Users should be fine for years thanks to the wonderful world-wide community of #chatmail relay operators 💜 Relays are dirt cheap to run. Also, our developments are much cheaper and less complex compared to what we know from comparable efforts.

No worries though!

We currently have moneys to help sustain ~15 contributors, with a sum similar to what other projects pay for their foundation president/CEO alone :)

Apr 11 at 1:27pmWeb
Show threadDelta Chat3d ago

the public #chatmail relay list https://chatmail.at/relays covers about ~20% or so of chat relays we heart about and have traces or hints from, and we definitely don't see everything -- which is how it should be :)

Best of all: you can now start using multiple relays for your chat profiles, so even if one relay goes down or is blocked temporarily, chatting continues. https://delta.chat/en/2026-03-31-zero#maximizing-availability-and-resilience-through-multi-path-delivery

Chatmail: Relays

Chatmail provides FOSS infrastructure for interoperable, secure, speedy and reliable end-to-end encrypted messaging. Check out clients as Arcane Chat, Bots or Delta Chat today!

Show threadleberschnitzel3d ago
@delta that page gives me a 404
Show threadDelta Chat3d ago
@leberschnitzel fixed, thanks.
Show threadrakoo3d ago
@delta do you have estimates on users ? How many are on nine.testrun.org vs the ones on this list vs all you know
nine.testrun.org home

Show threadDelta Chat2d ago
@rakoo no, user numbers are getting.increasingly unknown even to us. We tried to express this. That more people are joining the fun and contributing in various ways, is what we experience and appreciate. All three key efforts,#chatmail #deltachat and #webxdc are community efforts.
Show threadFugue State Machine Moto2d ago

@delta @aspensmonster Oh cool! Robustness ++

Delta Chat is heavily in the running for my one and only

Show threadSimon Dassow2d ago
@delta Nice dig at one of the biggest criticisms for Signal and why it isn't worth donating I think. Many foundation salaries are BigTech grotesque, so this is really nice to see in contrast.