[pmlnr]

So many thoughts on this...

The platforms and their convenience that one "only" has to write the post yet the internet needs so much metadata, so it tried to autogenerate it, instead of asking for it. People are put off by need to write a bloody subject for an email already, imagine if they were shown what's actually the "content" is.

About convincing: get the few that matters on deltachat, so they don't need anything new or extra - it's just email on steroids.

As for Mastodon: it's still someone else's system, there's nothing stopping them from adding AI metadata either on those nodes.

[kuschku]

How is mastodon someone else's system? You can host your mastodon server just like you can host your email server or matrix server.

And other mastodon servers, just like other email servers, can of course still modify the data they receive how they'd like.

[vachina]

Use them as the public toilet they are. Never put in any effort in anything you upload.

[saubeidl]

Why deltachat, an app I've never heard of before instead of Signal, which is also open source and at least has a bit of traction?

[gardenerik]

Delta.Chat is really underappreciated, open-source and distributed. I recommend you at least look into it.

Signal, on the other hand, is a closed "opensource" ecosystem (you cannot run your own server or client), requires a phone number (still -_-) and the opensource part of it does not have great track record (I remember some periods where the server for example was not updated in the public repo).

But yeah, if you want the more popular option, Signal is the one.

[nunobrito]

Not even knowing what deltachat is, however Signal was suspected from the start of being developed by the NSA (read the story about the founder and the funding from the CIA) and later received tens of million USD each year from the US government to keep running. So it is never advisable option when the goal is to acquire some sense of privacy.