With #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc developments we aim to instigate a new modern foundation for secure E-Mail and a resilient Web without platforms. We are building a kind of #minecraft system for modern decentralized messaging.
But who are we building it for?
For all who need reliable trustable means of modern private communication.
While our work needs hackers and experts it's not designed for them. @tante raises interesting and important related thoughts https://tante.cc/2025/03/03/who-is-free-software-for/
Thank you for sharing this. @tante says:
what we are selling isn’t a solution to people’s actual problems but a new identity [of hacker]. And most people already have [an identity]. Now the solutions we propose might actually help our target audience with a real problem that they are faced with, but so often our narratives don’t connect to their realities. We’re stuck in our own heads. Our own mechanisms and traditions.
This is why I vastly prefer #DeltaChat to solutions like #Matrix. DeltaChat solves a problem for real people, Matrix solves a problem for hackers.
(If you don't believe me, see the thread under this poll: https://chaos.social/@scy/114087369038431812)
@fluidlogic @delta @tante I think all users can't become ... operators. Maybe in a Smalltalk desktop era, that made sense (for the minority that could afford a PC/laptop).
In the fully-online smartphone era, communications providers have made products users like (to their detriment, maybe) and tethered it to their servers. FLOSS people can't do anything for that audience. There may be exceptions that "meet users where they are", as you say - I think Com-Phone Story Maker from https://digitaleconomytoolkit.org is an example.
