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Meta today is offering more details about how it plans to make its messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger, interoperable with third-party messaging
  • @penquin@lemm.ee
    8•1 year ago

    It’s annoying as fuck when I message my wife a video of our kids, it looks like dog shit on her iPhone. I have to instead send it on Whatsapp or signal. I hate apple

    • JackGreenEarthEnglish
      9•1 year ago

      That’s because you’re using SMS, that’s not the fault of the messaging app. Using a third party messaging app is the correct way to go, it’s encrypted, supports group chats, and bigger messages.

        • JackGreenEarthEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Hopefully not RCS, but maybe Matrix or the Signal protocol, as RCS is entirely controlled by Google and there aren’t any FOSS clients.

              • Skull giverEnglish
                1•1 year ago

                With Apple controlling the majority of the lucrative American teenage user base (after all, if all you’ve ever used is iPhone, you’ll probably stick to iPhone in the future; this is what Adobe did, what Microsoft did, and what Google came in to take over, and both succeeded) and an ever growing percentage elsewhere, Apple implementing RCS would immediately sway control over the protocol back the other way.

                My phone doesn’t come with XMPP or Matrix preinstalled. If I’m going to be talking to people, it’ll be through an app they already have (WhatsApp, in my case, maybe Telegram or Signal) or we’ll fall back to SMS if I barely have any signal. In a group of 30 tech enthusiasts, I’ve seen proposals to switch to Matrix succeed in convincing 5 of them to install a new app. With how inferior XMPP and Matrix apps still are today, I don’t think I’ll have much better luck with normal people.

                I want either Matrix or XMPP to succeed, but at the way things are progressing, I just don’t see it happening.

                  • Skull giverEnglish
                    2•1 year ago

                    Marginalising people for green bubbles is not something Apple can fix, that’s just shitty people being shitty to people.

                    RCS does solve the real-world problem of “sending images larger than 1MB” and “sending videos larger than 3MB”. It also fixes the god-awful group messaging standards, adds a whole range of modern texting abilities, and practically removes the character limit. That’s objectively better than how things are right now.

                    The RCS payment standard requires blocking rooted or jailbroken phones. Implementing payments (and I don’t know if they already do) and permitting rooted phones would actually violate the standard. If Google makes it so you can send people money through RCS the same way you can with iMessage, they have a very good reason to ban these devices, even if I may personally disagree with it.

                    I don’t text so I don’t give a fuck about what colour my bubble will be. It would be nice for Google to open their encryption system to the GSMA so E2EE RCS would actually be a possibility, but even without E2EE RCS would allow me to group text again (MMS has been disabled by most carriers here, SMS doesn’t support groups).

                    As for your Youtube app: you can disable it with ADB without root. There are good reasons for rooting your phone, but just removing Youtube is not one of them. If you did root your phone, you can turn RCS back on with the standard Magisk hiding procedures; once you get Google Wallet to work again, Google Messages should work fine, too.