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Any Open-Source RCS apps yet? (lemmy.farley.pro)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Are there any apps that support RCS that aren't made by Google or a crappy cellular provider (ie: bloatware Verizon apps)?

I appreciate the features RCS has, but I'd love to get that without sending it all to Google with a "trust us" approach to backdoor keys. The documentation I looked at indicated that anyone could setup an app to support RCS and communicate with Google's RCS users, but I can't find any apps that actually do that.

Also would love to be able to message from multiple devices using RCS, which Google has working in their web app.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Matrix doesn't have forward secrecy, and signal is not proprietary, it's free and open source,

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And Matrix does not fall back to SMS (unless someone implements such a Matrix client).

It would also be silly to try to get everyone you know to use YOUR Matrix client, or one compatible with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Signal removed SMS support a while ago...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Indeed, making it ineligible as an alternative to RCS or iMessage