Delta Chat
by Delta Chat
Decentralized private messenger with chat-shared tools and games
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About
Delta Chat is a reliable decentralized instant messenger that is easy and fun to use for friends, family, groups and organizations. Delta Chat is developed by a dedicated FOSS contributor community that jointly releases refinements and new features several times a year, across many stores and platforms world-wide.
Features at a glance:
- 🌐 Anonymous. Instant onboarding without a phone number, e-mail or other private data.
- 📱 Flexible. Supports multiple chat profiles and is easy to setup on multiple devices.
- 🧩 Extensible. Add tools like shopping lists, calendars or gaming apps to any chat.
- 🌧️ Reliable. Works under bad and adversarial network conditions.
- 🛡️ Secure. Audited End-to-End encryption safe against network and server attacks.
- 🏠 Sovereign. Can be run with your own e-mail address or server.
- 📜 FOSS. Fully Open Source/Free Software, built on Internet Standards.
Permissions
2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
--device=all - session management (logout, suspend)
--system-talk-name=org.freedesktop.login1 - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - network
--share=network - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - audio
--socket=pulseaudio - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - access to your documents folder
--filesystem=xdg-documents - access to your download folder
--filesystem=xdg-download - access to your music folder
--filesystem=xdg-music - access to your videos folder
--filesystem=xdg-videos - access to your pictures folder
--filesystem=xdg-pictures - talks to com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
--talk-name=com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar - notifications
--talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications - system tray
--talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher - talks to com.canonical.Unity
--talk-name=com.canonical.Unity
Who publishes this
The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.
- installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source (x2)
source:prebuilt - verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
publisher:flathub
Maintenance
Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.
No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.