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Any FOSS alternatives for Google Messages that support RCS? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Was curious if there were FOSS solutions since I really would like to avoid using anything Google related

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I'm not sure there exist any.

Last time I checked, this was actually the biggest criticism Google recieved. They were pushing RCS on Apple, yet keeping it proprietarily only available on Google Messages.

Maybe it has changed. I don't know.

Latest update I heard was that they made it ON by default in Google Messages.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

the one that made me laugh recently was when they tried to paint alternatives to rcs as antiquated.

rcs doesn’t even support end-to-end encryption, something even imessage does.

an open, industry standard that everyone supports would be awesome, but rcs simply isn’t it. rcs was designed to make telecom companies happy, not to be an actually good messaging protocol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Google's extension of RCS does do e2ee, which raises the question of "what happens to security when you talk to a non-Google user"..

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