@meso@feld@delta using smtp in the background seems like literally the worst choice you could possibly make yet delta chat seems to work great so I guess I don't mind what's under the hood and they can carry on being good
@sun@delta@meso it does solve some interesting problems for you, though.
Like with WhatsApp/Telegram/XMPP/iMessage any media attachments actually go to a webserver and the message contents reference a link the client downloads
with SMTP as the transport mechanism you just include the attachment in the message, and it will also be encrypted
It doesn't scale as well which is one reason why the others do it their way, but scaling is not a problem that needs to be solved right now
@delta@meso@sun I'm cackling to myself at the idea of using NNTP for large file attachments, actually... it could work...
imagine if establishing a chat also established a private obfuscated newsgroup name between the parties and the encrypted payloads were pushed there. You'd have to be able to integrate somehow so the NNTP servers could be told which groups to subscribe to and which servers to peer with, but it would be possible to limit the scope so only the involved parties' groups get downloaded by the partipants' servers.
@sun@delta@meso one of the issues with PGP mail is that there's too much metadata exposed plaintext but Delta side steps that a bit e.g., the Subject field isn't used for message data
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