Having lots of fun using Delta Chat. I've set up two accounts on my mail server, one for myself and one for my husband. We're both surprised at how fast it is compared to more traditional centralised chat apps like Signal. It's so cool to be able to self-host this and not rely on centralised infrastructure that is outside of my control.

Now I just need to convince everyone I know it's really cool :)

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@delta @gmc Do you have an article about this on your site somewhere? I'm not quite sure I grok what you mean.

@RandamuMaki @gmc no bigger write up, but if you have a desktop:

Go to message input, attach-app and select "v86 emu" app and start it.

Inside v86 app "Choose file", select an iso (download for example https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.21/releases/x86/alpine-standard-3.21.3-x86.iso) and hit "Start" button. Login as "Root", no password.

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@delta @gmc Weirdly enough that seems to be missing from the .deb version or I'm just ignorant. XD It's fine. It's enough to know it exists for some. :)

@RandamuMaki @gmc do you have a recent version like https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.54.2/deltachat-desktop_1.54.2_amd64.deb ?

@delta @gmc That one broke on Debian 12.9 (Bookworm). I can't quite figure out why.

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@delta @gmc Wahey, I got the flatpak to work. No more errors.

@RandamuMaki @gmc hum, that's odd. Could you open an https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop or on https://support.delta.chat ? cheers and thanks.

@delta @gmc Won't use github since it's owned by M$ and the other support page claims @palemoon is not supported.

@hiker every App allows to create anonymous chat profiles on #chatmail servers. Just hit "create profile"