I also use Delta over Signal for my own reasons, but heads up:
Nah, download Aurora Store from F-Droid, now you have degoogled access to the Play Store.
BUT a word of warning:
You still have to be careful of what you download, it usually lists known trackers to help with that. And “requires google play services” is often actually not true, some things that claim that work fine or maybe just don’t give notifications.
Never used Briar myself, but I like how Delta is decentralized and resilient to outages even supporting multi-relay set ups, easy to use for the “normals,” it’s private and secure, low (no?) metadata. Among other things I’m sure, that’s just off the top of my head.
The ease of use is one of the biggest, I couldn’t send someone “normal” a link or QR code and expect them to navigate through setting up XMPP or Matrix accounts, but with Delta I’ve never had an issue, I’ve even gotten near tech-illiterate people like my mom to do it. Signal is easy too, but was out for other reasons (mostly phone number requirements.)
It just makes sense to just download everything from Droid-ify and/or Fdroid ( almost all of my apps are from these two). Yeah but even with that, it can still get shut off. Idk. . I wouldn’t risk it.
They also got a store called Aurora Droid. Its another alternative to fdroid. Now I don’t know if it’ll help with some apps from Aurora store but its another alternative.
I also use Delta over Signal for my own reasons, but heads up:
Nah, download Aurora Store from F-Droid, now you have degoogled access to the Play Store.
BUT a word of warning:
You still have to be careful of what you download, it usually lists known trackers to help with that. And “requires google play services” is often actually not true, some things that claim that work fine or maybe just don’t give notifications.
Never heard of delta chat. Glancing at it on F-Droid, it looks a lot like Briar.
Any commentary on a comparison of signal v Briar v Delta chat on features / privacy?
Never used Briar myself, but I like how Delta is decentralized and resilient to outages even supporting multi-relay set ups, easy to use for the “normals,” it’s private and secure, low (no?) metadata. Among other things I’m sure, that’s just off the top of my head.
The ease of use is one of the biggest, I couldn’t send someone “normal” a link or QR code and expect them to navigate through setting up XMPP or Matrix accounts, but with Delta I’ve never had an issue, I’ve even gotten near tech-illiterate people like my mom to do it. Signal is easy too, but was out for other reasons (mostly phone number requirements.)
It just makes sense to just download everything from Droid-ify and/or Fdroid ( almost all of my apps are from these two). Yeah but even with that, it can still get shut off. Idk. . I wouldn’t risk it.
Yeah I do when available too, but if something I need isn’t on F-Droid I’ll use Aurora begrudgingly, just nice to have the option.
They also got a store called Aurora Droid. Its another alternative to fdroid. Now I don’t know if it’ll help with some apps from Aurora store but its another alternative.
I think that’s just an alternative frontend for F-Droid, like Droidify (the one I actually use for F-Droid) is.