If you use your email, it's anonymous but you have to use your email which is almost never anonymous and has your phone number. Also you sometimes have to "Create an app-specific password" that delta chat will use and gain full access to your email account, which is way worse than signal or any other application. And for some accounts, you have to use your real password, and maybe disable the spam protection.

Am I wrong somewhere or is that a really stupid idea?

[–] amzd@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago

During onboarding of the app you only choose a name and get a random email address

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you struggle making a new email address, this is not for you.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Which applies to 99% of people making Delta Chat not a viable alternative to WhatsApp.

The Fediverse has the same problem that Linux, and Open Source in general, struggles with. The barriers to entry and network effects work against widespread adoption.

Until technology is packaged in a way that makes it dead simple and/or unavoidable, people won’t make the effort to move en masse.

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Our words must be dead simple too.

'Open source' is a very ambiguous, confusing, phrase that makes it too easy for anti-libre software to scam.