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submitted 5 months ago by Sensitivezombie to c/[email protected]

I mostly use Signal with family and friends. For all else, I have used Google messages and the default app.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Not yet possible. Google hasn't provided an API to access RCS from 3rd party apps. They did to Samsung's messenger (1st party as far as their own phones), but as far as I know that is the only other one currently. (Verizon for a while had their own RCS implementation and infrastructure and their own messenger app could access it)

[-] Sensitivezombie 3 points 5 months ago

Well, that's too bad about RCS.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I had this same question since seeing the post about the Fossify phone app. For phone, calendar, contacts, things like those, i dont see what value the official google apps have (other than syncing to your account, but i can manage that myself). For Messages from Google, tho, there is something they provide in the RCS, if only because they block others from implementing.

So, using Fossify Message, for example, sacrifices something of some actual value here...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

https://github.com/deku-messaging/Deku-SMS-Android

Supports emoji & images Supports e2ee if the other party also have deny SMS installed Supports message forwording

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I've been using Beeper. It's open source and built on Matrix bridges, also open source. For RCS you have to link it to your Google Messages

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Google Messages

He wanted FOSS software. Bridging it to Matrix doesn't make it FOSS imo.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

OP wrote "OS or FOSS". What is the license for Matrix, btw ?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Synapse is AGPL-3.0.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Quick question about Beeper:
Does the app explain how these bridges work, what that means for encryption, and most importantly, that it would be nice to inform your contacts about it?

this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
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