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[-] skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 76 points 7 months ago

I always disliked RCS, I kept telling people it's a walled garden, mainly controlled by Google

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 22 points 7 months ago

Even so you'd think they'd want to get as many people as possible on board with RCS to increase adoption, not fewer.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago

Then what they're doing tells us all we need to know.

Google wants to control what data they can glean from RCS users.

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[-] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I agree. You're much better off just using Signal. It's not federated/decentralized, but all client apps, the protocol and the server code are completely open source and anyone can fork the project. It also works on every platform, its encryption protocol is the most secure one out there and it's been around for over 10 years. They also recently added some cool new privacy features.

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 44 points 7 months ago

Good standard you have there. Good features are proprietary to Google and you can't use it while rooted.

Lmao

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 7 months ago

Every day I am attracted more and more by PinePhone. At least as a secondary device, at first.

Perhaps it's not even close to polished yet with existing distributions, but at least it isn't made to be shitty.

[-] epyon22@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago

Seems like a decently attractive option. I wish more apps were/had PWA alternatives and I'd be good

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[-] lascapi@jlai.lu 12 points 7 months ago

I don't know why, but that a sad news :/

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 19 points 7 months ago

Good news.

The more people they keep from using this garbage "standard", the better.

It still requires a phone number. It still falls back to SMS, it still fails, a LOT - just see the comments in this thread.

It's 20 years too late.

XMPP was better, in 2010, than RCS is today. I was using XMPP on my phone in 2010, messaging people on computers, seamlessly. Without a phone number. On multiple services using Pidgin.

No thanks, I don't want this garbage called RCS.

[-] epyon22@programming.dev 12 points 7 months ago

I was wondering why RCS just stopped working the other day

[-] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 10 points 7 months ago

I don't get the RCS hype. I already have apps for rich messaging and RCS offers nothing for me over those apps. What I do appreciate is SMS, which is posed to be killed-off by RCS. I can rely on SMS even when there is no data signal, can't say that for RCS. I wish I had a way to permanently disable RCS on my Pixel 6a, instead I have to keep rejecting the 'upgrade to RCS' dialog.

[-] soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id 5 points 7 months ago

The hype is because America won't switch to Internet messaging by default and only wants one app to message with. So SMS is the only primary option for that. Meaning lower resolution media, and a lack of modern features like read receipts and typing indicators.

[-] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

My husband and I were having an issue yesterday sending an RCS message, they were never getting delivered. They ended up being sent via SMS. It cleared up after an hour or so

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