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You are not expected to use your regular email address, you get assigned a random email address that gets tied to your account (and your chosen username, but I
by pepa65 1y ago
You are not expected to use your regular email address, you get assigned a random email address that gets tied to your account (and your chosen username, but I think that can be changed) and the servers that store uncollected messages are only accepting properly encrypted emails. All this is completely transparent to users, it looks like Signal, but doesn't require a phone number, and it uses proven technologies where server managers would only have access to the randomized email addresses and the message size and times (but those are not logged in the standard setup).
There is an inbuilt drive for decentralization, as "anybody" could run a server (I just set one up).
- em-bee 1y agogetting a random email address from a dedicated deltachat server is a new, optional feature. it didn't exist when i signed up. no matter. i am not using deltachat in a way that i need to stay anonymous. i am using it to talk to my friends. and if i wanted to i could create another account on the new servers. the ability to use a semi-anonymous email was always there. it's just a matter of finding a server for that. i am afraid though that the anonymity of the deltachat servers will be abused and they become targets of law enforcement.