While onboarding is extremely easy, the real challenge is to find initial contacts or circles to chat with. There is no discovery and no central registry. Every new chat profile is private and nobody knows about it other than your contacts. So we are curious. What is the current number of chats (1:1 or group chats or channels) you have with #deltachat apps? Not contacts but chats you have read or wrote something into, in the last months.
If you are not using delta, please ignore this poll :)
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While onboarding is extremely easy, the real challenge is to find initial contac
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- cyb3rrunn3r@cyb3rrunn3r.de 4 weeks ago
@delta@chaos.social For ME one thing is Missing: "Below 2" oder "None - without myself". 😔
Same with Simplex. I have them installed - that's all. 
ALT43@mastodon.social 4 weeks ago @delta -> 0
lig@fosstodon.org 4 weeks ago @delta
I don't think discovery (or the lack of it) is the reason.
I don't use discovery on other platforms anyway.
Well, people use discovery to find me by my phone number on Whatsapp but that's usually for one-time chats like delivery or booking confirmations.
The main platform I use for messaging friends and family is Telegram. And I have unknown contacts denied there.
gluek@mastodon.social 4 weeks ago @delta 100+ (and group chats make up half of it)
nicorikken@mastodon.nl 4 weeks ago @delta I've promoted it a few times at FOSS-events. With more delta-curious people we started a group chat then and there. It is growing organically by new people getting invited by current group members. It is also a branch-off point for one-to-one contacts.
scotty86@mastodon.social 4 weeks ago @delta That's privacy by design. Love it.
If you want random ppl to contact you, feel free to publish an invitation link. 🤷
avoca@gladtech.social 4 weeks ago DC is my primary messaging solution with family, friends and other techie types.
I only require Apple iMessage and regular text for customers, and that's only appointments and the like.
Secure Email is used for more important things.
cdonat@hostsharing.coop 4 weeks ago To be precise: 1. But I get a lot of penis enlargement, and blue pills offers. Also requests to "verify" my address to receive packages, I'm not aware of.
The issue is, that most effective traditional e-Mail spam filters introduce delays, that many users deem unacceptable for a chat.
- URH1@mastodon.social 4 weeks ago
@delta
I use it also for reading some RSS-Feeds and for receiving some Status-Mails (unencrypted) 
nokke@mstdn.social 4 weeks ago @delta I have so far found that just getting people to try ("I don't want to install another app") is my hurdle - even the tech friends. People have IM exhaustion (and have for years, Signal fought the same problem forever, still does). When you have to convince your nerd friends to even try, it's exhausting. I don't have a great answer. 😕
Kdude@mastodon.social 4 weeks ago @delta to be honest, i mainly stopped using it as my main because Signal is just easier to use;
Like marking messages as “read” from Apple Watch, or replying with 👍🏼…
cehteh@karlsruhe-social.de 4 weeks ago @delta The important point here is that #deltachat is a private messenger, not a public messenger and not a social network. Others fill that role already. Discoverability should stay in the hands of each individual user. That saied, it would be nice to have some kind of WoT so that one can announce his delta contact publicly and only people for whom a trust relationship can be established pass a pre-check for a contact request, so no spam should become possible.
smalldog@social.smalldog.club 4 weeks ago @delta right now it's just me and the family plus one other. I'm totally OK with that. Maybe later on some others. I know when a message comes in on Delta to pay attention.
multed@silverbay.space 4 weeks ago @delta 10+
raiden@mastodon.de 4 weeks ago @delta
I think the lack of a way to find contacts is both an advantage and a disadvantage. It’s an advantage for privacy-conscious users, but a disadvantage for regular users. Ideally, there could be away to balance the two. I realize that DC currently uses a cryptographic identity, but perhaps it would make sense to use a regular email address as a sort of bootstrap? You could call it an optional anchor identity. The question would be how to implement this as smoothly as possible. In that context, it would be interesting to know how many users actually have their contacts’ email addresses in the system contacts app.
fluttersh@pony.social 4 weeks ago @delta more group chats!!!
voxel@infosec.space 4 weeks ago @delta I believe a more friendly Ul and better UX would help :)
Dima812@mastodon.de 4 weeks ago @delta Hello! Thank you for the app. I've been using it for a few months now and I like everything. But my friends really want the app to require a password when opened.