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A veritable smörgåsbord of new features lands in your favourite apps with KDE Gear ⚙️ 26.08!

Dolphin improves its integration with KDE Connect, Konsole revamps its drag’n’drop features, Kdenlive’s titler gets more functionalities, and Okular’s annotations more power.

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Free Software Foundation Europe @fsfe mastodon.social

#Apple has announced new terms for alternative app distribution in the EU (18 August 2026). The reduction of fees is welcome, but the core problems for smaller developers and #FreeSoftware remain there.

🧵A thread on why we’re still concerned about #DMA compliance.🧵

Abbas Davarpanah عباس داورپناه @abbas_dp techhub.social

We built a full guide for Deltachat and put it at deltachat.wiki.

This is not the official Deltachat website. It is an unofficial community wiki written by TheMadOrg, released under GPLv3, so anyone can read it, copy it, fix it, and share it. We were tired of the useful knowledge living in forum threads, help pages, and scattered GitHub notes. If you already knew the project you could find it. If you were new, you got lost. The point of this wiki is to put the path in one place.

The guide has two forms. One is an ordinary website you open in a browser. The other is a Webxdc app that shows the same pages inside Deltachat itself. You send the file in a chat and the other person reads it there, with no browser and no need for the site. If the network dies, the guide is still in that conversation. We did not add that as decoration. We built it this way on purpose.

It has four languages from the first day: English, Persian, Russian, and Spanish. Persian is not an afterthought and not a machine dump. English is the source. If a fact is wrong we fix the English first and then carry the change to the other languages. If you can translate or improve a page, the repository is public and the door is open.

Here is what is inside today. It explains how Deltachat actually works: email underneath, a normal chat on top, no phone number, and you can still reach someone who has never installed the app. It covers installation on the usual systems, including F-Droid. It talks about privacy and security in plain language: where messages live, what a relay can see, and what it cannot. It also says clearly that this is not only a tool for the day the internet dies. It is for everyday chat, groups, files, calls, and mini-apps.

For people who want to build, it has Webxdc: small apps that stay inside the chat, with no store and no tracking, and they keep working offline after you receive them. It has bots. It has running your own server, both the usual Chatmail relay and Madmail, our single-binary fork of Maddy. One file is enough. It runs on a Raspberry Pi or a small VPS, for people who do not want to keep Postfix and Dovecot alive by hand.

We are not trying to replace the official documentation. We are trying to keep the path in one room, in more than one language, and in a file you can still open when the website is gone. If a page is missing, wrong, or weakly translated, bring it and we will fix it together.

deltachat.wiki
github.com/themadorg/deltachat-wiki

Deltachat FreeSoftware Webxdc
Black poster with the green lowercase delta logo on the left and the wordmark deltachat.wiki on the right. Subtitle: An unofficial community guide. Languages listed: English, فارسی, Русский, Español.
Abbas Davarpanah عباس داورپناه @abbas_dp techhub.social

Digitalcourage has been doing digital rights work in Germany since 1987. They are the people behind the BigBrotherAwards. This is not a random blog post. They just updated their messenger guide.

For most people leaving WhatsApp, they still call Signal the best compromise. Then they say: if you want to go one step further, use Deltachat as well.

What they like about Deltachat is almost the same list I keep repeating.

No phone number.
No address book upload.
Decentralized relays.
End-to-end encryption on by default, including groups.
Free software.
You can get it from F-Droid.
You do not give any personal data to create an account.

They are honest about Signal too. It is easier to switch to. It is also one company, one pile of servers, on Amazon and Microsoft, under US law, and it still wants a phone number to register. In Germany that already bothers them. In Iran it is not a small detail.

Here a phone number is not just a contact. It is a SIM, an identity, something that can be cut. One centralized app is one switch. We have already watched WhatsApp, Telegram, and even the “safer” apps go dark or get squeezed. Moving from Telegram to Signal does not change that shape. It is still one door.

Deltachat is not magic. Digitalcourage themselves say it is still not widely used. That is the hard part, not the encryption. But the design matches how people here actually have to live: bad networks, sudden cuts, no trust in a single company, and a messenger you can keep when the usual ones disappear.

I have been saying we should stop treating Deltachat as only an emergency tool for blackouts. This guide is useful because a careful European digital-rights group reached the same technical conclusion from a quieter place. Everyday chat, not just the day the net dies.

Their full comparison:

digitalcourage.de/digitale-selbstvertei…

Deltachat Digitalcourage FreeSoftware
Blurred close-up of a phone home screen with WhatsApp, Telegram, and other mainstream apps in the background. The Deltachat logo sits in the center: a phone icon with a delta symbol inside a chat bubble.