If you want to read your encrypted messages on other clients, you’ll have to copy your encryption keys over and the other clients will need to have message encryption support installed. One “gotcha” here is the issue of message encryption, however. Telegram technically allows 3rd party clients as well, but they are very primitive and not nearly as diverse as the ecosystem of email clients available. While the Signal client app is open source, Moxie does not allow any forked/modified clients to connect to the Open Whisper network, so you won’t get any flexibility there. That’s a huge advantage over particularly WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Apple iMessage which all require the company-dictated software app.
I can reply to messages I get in Delta Chat from Gnome Evolution or FairEmail or Mutt or webmail or any of the hundreds of other email clients out there. You can still access all of those messages from any other email client that connects to your server (as long as you don’t delete them). It doesn’t take your conversations hostageĪlong the same lines as “You control your data”, the Delta Chat app doesn’t take your conversations hostage either. Also see: Why are we still using phone numbers?ħ. In the case of Facebook, they can probably match your WhatsApp contacts with Facebook contacts and create an even larger relationship map thus making manipulation via advertisements even easier. I can easily tell who has what app by matching their phone numbers without their permission or knowledge. That should be recognized as another privacy violation. If you give any of those apps access to your contacts list, it will scrape the phone numbers and match them with phone numbers in the service’s centralized server database in order to tell you which users have accounts on the platform you’re using. It can also be used to create relationship maps. This can be a violation of your privacy since your phone number can be associated with your real identity, bank accounts, address, place of work, etc. One of the worst things about WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram is that all of them require your phone number to create an account.
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