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December 23, 2025, 6:39pm
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This issue duplicates the following:
Kind of embarrassed to point out that there are many FOSS advocates here who aren’t up to date on the nuance of all features of proprietary apps. Even for those who are, it is a bit vague for you to request an equivalent to WhatsApp communities without specifying which parts you actually need and why (otherwise we would need to clone the whole system that is surely out of scope). It’s even worse, as you seem to be forwarding a request from a third party, so it would be best if they could chime i…
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
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As an example, the screenshot shows the rights management options which Telegram offers for groups.
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.…
when you have close friends or family members in a group, not having an Admin is not really bad, but when the group gets larger sometimes you need ways to control some aspects of the group. right now, anyone can change the name of the group or spam everybody or …
is it possible to have restrictions in the groups?
or is it against the philosophy of Deltachat?
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.
Inspiration from how Signal groups work:
Mentions remove a member from the group send messages and start calls