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As a basic sms user, is RCS the reason my conversations now sometimes get flooded with messages like, "so-and-so loved this"?
iMessages does that when it falls back to SMS.
Google Messages works around it by manually parsing the message and adding the emoji to the message like iMessage does.
So Apple caused the problem, and only Google Messages accommodates for it afaik.
In a proper RCS chat that won't happen as Apple and Google will send the reactions natively.
I wish we could simply get everyone to switch to text-based messaging systems that don't suck.
I miss when Jabber was more common.
Yup
Honestly the best news I've seen in a while. It was RCS that drove me back to stock android. I'll be switching back to Graphene as soon as this lands.
The number of Europeans in here acting like What's App, which might as well be Facebook Messenger, is some sort of high road is hilarious.
Yeah I still don't get why people use or promote WhatsApp. If anything, use Signal or even Telegram
Telegram is worse than even Whatsapp, since it's not even pretending to be end to end encrypted.
The real choice is signal or threema.
Or something equally secure and also decentralized like Briar or Cwtch.
I have thought this for years. Everyone slimes on Americans for using iMessage and asks who no WhatsApp? Same reason Iβm not on facebook, donβt use a meta quest, and donβt use instagram.
2 weeks now on Graphene. This is what a phone OS should be, simple, boring, juste the basics without a shit-ton of bloatware and spying crap.
This is what a phone OS should be
Quite literally how my wife puts it. She's been using Graphene on a Pixel 9 Pro XL for a few months now. Even with the hurdles of moving to an entirely different platform and the weirdness that comes with the extra security (not playing nice with some services), she vastly prefers it over her previous Apple stuff, to the point she wants me to wipe MacOS off of her iMac and install Linux.
Excellent! Since Signal removed SMS support there's no trusted app supporting old SMS and encrypted messaging on one UI
SMS is not to be trusted because it is plain text and full of vulnerabilities.
Literally everyone should just use Signal. I really don't understand why we all don't.
Because Signal 1) doesn't ship as default, and 2) requires a login process.
You've already lost the majority of the general public with the former. On top of that, the Venn diagram of "people who go through with logging in" and "people who already know about Signal" has significant overlap.
Aw helllllllll yeah π
For those who got too excited by the title: read the original messages from the GrapheneOS. RCS de-facto is not an open technology, there's a massive amount of work and multiple steps are needed to get anywhere near the proper independent implementation. It's gonna be amazing if the GrapheneOS team pulls it off, but don't get too excited about the release dates and its availability for other systems (e.g. Linux).
Is there a reason we can't just all use Quik across the de-googled OSes? Vendor specific solutions only further the closed ecosystem problem.
I don't see any mention that Quik works with RCS. Am I mistaken about this?
While that is a good SMS app (in fact, it's the one I'm currently using), it does not support RKS.