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My personal experience: 121 chats (just my family account I have several other accounts)

Spam from the same address will appear as a single chat, and you can block the contact and never receive more spam from that address

Since spammers constantly change address you might what to tweak the "show classic email" option in Advanced settings, if you set it to "accepted contacts only" only classic email from contacts you have accepted a chat already will show up in Delta Chat so contact requests from new contacts will no show up, which is perfect if you only want your dad's messages to appear in the app

Your parents can use something else to message you, for other people they can switch to SMS in worse case, just uninstall the app with a goodbye message once you are not there there will be some real reasons for other people to join you elsewhere,

There was a time where there was no WhatsApp and no one died because of it, true there might be some extra inconveniences but the question is if you have the will to do the change, I deleted WhatsApp and things are OK so far I am not using Signal either, I use Delta Chat and email mainly

In my case I was not using it for family but for one club where they make announcements, anyways uninstalled it and now relay on two people of the club that also have DeltaChat and I have to ask them every time to forward me the information 😅

The app allows to easily add multiple profiles and switch between them, besides the classic email profile, you can tap in your avatar at the top left of the chat list and add a chat profile for secure encrypted chatting, and join a community group for testing and asking questions about delta chat:

https://i.delta.chat/#6A36794AF242B4E8B2EEAFBF9F2C9E97F60ED9B1=&a=stalebot1%40arcanechat.me&g=DC+Community&x=y6dS91dlLLi&i=oQN_awun1rp_0T23okfisYiE&s=fJNvhQvt7gEgmudKr9InVCln

Yes you can, if you use an existing classic email account of yours with it, the anonymous free chatmail accounts can only be used with encryption, otherwise spammers could abuse the service

You will see the conversation as a chat while your dad will see it as normal replies to his emails

This sucks, at least Tesla was electric, fuck cars...

I use Delta Chat exclusively to chat with my family, I don't even have WhatsApp installed.

Delta Chat has most of the features you need for communication the only missing thing is integrated calls that cause the phone to ring, which is not a deal breaker for me since I don't call often, used the jitsi meet integration once with them was a bit messy to get my mom etc to figure out how to use jitsi meet in the browser while explaining via voice messages in Delta Chat, but I think adding integrated calls is in the roadmap

That is a "they" issue, they don't allow to use their email server with your own email client of your choice which sucks, better use other email service. You don't need to use your email account tho, you can register without providing any information and it will automatically create a random anonymous email account for you, much better than the protonmail one, for free and without sending limits and with blazing FAST instant delivery

It is easy to disable, just follow this basic steps:

1. uninstall WhatsApp
2. install and use Delta Chat
3. Enjoy 🎉

No need bud no need for additional app, no need for unencrypted backup files exposed on filesystem public storage, just use Delta Chat bud, just use Delta Chat

Go to your "Saved Messages" chat there you can save notes or use mini-apps in private, click the paperclip attachment button select the apps button you will see the mini-apps list, some useful apps are the to-do list app to track things you need to do or shopping lists, and the one called TOTP is the one I was talking about for 2FA PINs, the Time tracking app is also useful