Gleblol
December 23, 2025, 6:16pm
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Hello everyone. I wanted to draw your attention to the “Block Contact” feature in my channel. My channel has a “block contact” feature. Why block people in a channel (it doesn’t work at all) if this feature should theoretically be available in a group? For example, if someone violated a group rule and needs to be kicked out or blocked from posting. Of course, the person doing this has the right to do so, not as a user, but as the creator of the group.
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ian
December 23, 2025, 6:39pm
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This issue duplicates the following:
I am taking a look at Delta Chat. I haven’t used it extensively yet. Before I dip my toe further and try it out extensively, I would like to know a few things around the possibility of using Delta for group chats:
Are public group chats possible with Delta chat? If so, what are the group chat capabilities available:
a. can I set up a public group chat name that’s uniform for every member in the group chat?
b. can I set up a group chat profile picture?
c. do we have basic moderation tools f…
“Strangers are just friends you haven’t met yet.”
(proverb)
The Public Groups bot is a nice tool to create public channels, where any Delta Chat user can join - even if you don’t know each other yet.
You can see the existing public groups bots here: Public Groups bot instances list - #2 by cregox
This post shows three things:
How you can join public groups
How you can start a public group
How to run it
There is a simple idea for decentralized moderation without hierarchies. You allow anyone to remove any other member like is allowed in Delta Chat already, but the member who removes someone has to leave as well.
This disincentivizes removing random members. If the member removes actual spammer or troll, the group will add such member back in later. If a troll removes random member without a reason, the group will add member back, but not the troll.
As far as I know the idea originates in the …
Expected behavior
When I block a user on Delta Chat, I wish they didn’t have the option to remove me from the groups we share.
Actual behavior
The user who is blocked, has the possibility to see in the profile of the groups that we share my username with the email and can delete me from the groups.
This post is about the idea of a more complete group mechanism. It intends to implement a modern group function similar to the Telegram group mechanism.
We noticed that the group function of Delta Chat is weak now. Especially for group management capabilities. The first improvement is the introduction of permissions and administrators. This requires relying on digital signatures. Email address based identification (https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/blob/master/spec.md Version: 0.…
TL;DR The scenario DC aims to solve at the moment is to only create small private groups with friends & family who you trust and where everyone can be held accountable for their actions in person. Anything else would require major architectural changes. Blocking is a completely local action for your own account, not targeting a given channel or group.
Gleblol
December 23, 2025, 7:24pm
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The moderation aspect is clear. But will the “Block contact” function be removed from channels? As I mentioned above, it’s useless in channels.
WofWca
January 1, 2026, 8:55am
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What exactly are you talking about? About this “Block Contact” button when right-clicking on chat list items, namely on channels that you’re not the owner of?
I personally agree, this doesn’t make much sense, and is probably just a bug. Indeed clicking the button does nothing, and causes an uncaught exception.
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