• Simon Müller@sopuli.xyz
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    6 months ago

    RCS itself is an open standard (kind of), but Google Messages is literally the only RCS Client

    There are no others. Like seriously you can barely find another usable RCS Client

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      6 months ago

      sad! the world once again fell for google’s propaganda and deception just because they were able to muster up a good-guy attitude and a winning smile.

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        6 months ago

        the world once again fell for google’s propaganda

        Not really — since so far nobody else has adopted RCS. And not many people use the Google one either.

        The Signal protocol is a defacto standard and on the path to becoming an actual standard. It’s already the most widely used messaging protocol today except for perhaps Email… but email would only be larger if you include messages that were sent by bots. For human sent messages, Signal is the most widely used protocol in the world.

        And as part of the DMA in Europe, Meta (which makes up most Signal users) is opening up their infrastructure so that any other messaging app can send/receive messages to their users. Which would essentially make it a perfect replacement for SMS and definitely better than RCS. You won’t have to use WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger yourself, to be able to securely contact anyone who does.

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        6 months ago

        yeah it’s quite disappointing, I wish Matrix saw some more (individual!) funding

        (organisations that have funded Matrix in the past generally want new features, but not core work on Matrix to make the experience any better 🥴)