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I don't really care who sets it up, but since everyone that is currently on facebook chat (be it Messenger or WhatsApp) is also a customer of some mobile carrie

by lucb1e 7y ago

I don't really care who sets it up, but since everyone that is currently on facebook chat (be it Messenger or WhatsApp) is also a customer of some mobile carrier, having the carriers create an alternative is not a completely ridiculous idea when we want to make the chat infrastructure distributed/federated. I'd be happy to MMS my uncle if it didn't cost like two euros per 640x480 picture; RCS seems to be the way I'll be able to do that without going through Facebook.

XMPPwocky 7y ago
I mean, imagine a world where your ISP gives you an email address too- doesn't really make sense.
- detaro 7y ago
  That was completely normal.
  - aaomidi 7y ago
    And still happens to this day.
  - lucb1e 7y ago
    I think that was the point: since it's normal that an ISP gives you an email address with webmail and some mega/gigabytes space, why not a messaging service supported by mobile carriers?
anon4242 7y ago
> I'd be happy to MMS my uncle if it didn't cost like two euros per 640x480 picture Wow, where are you living? I haven't paid to send an MMS in nearly ten years...
- lucb1e 7y ago
  I've seen cheap contracts where SMS is unlimited, but never anything with unlimited MMS (Netherlands). I actually just checked what I currently pay for an MMS and youfone.nl doesn't even mention it in the price list. Since I have to ask, I guess I can't afford it :-)
  - anon4242 7y ago
    Oh :O, up here in the north (Sweden) you have to look pretty hard to find a plan without unlimited everything but data.
  - vxNsr 7y ago
    my understanding is that mms is part of data, that's how it works here in the US. RCS will also use data whenever it gets implemented.
- leoedin 7y ago
  It's the same in the UK. My phone bill is normally £12 a month - recently it was maybe £1 more. I checked what had happened - I'd accidentally sent a single mms to someone by including a link to google maps in a text message which got expanded into an image. There's a reason WhatsApp is basically the only messaging people do here - carrier based messaging is an exploitative money trap.

by lucb1e 7y ago

XMPPwocky 7y ago

I mean, imagine a world where your ISP gives you an email address too- doesn't really make sense.

detaro 7y ago
That was completely normal.
- aaomidi 7y ago
  And still happens to this day.
- lucb1e 7y ago
  I think that was the point: since it's normal that an ISP gives you an email address with webmail and some mega/gigabytes space, why not a messaging service supported by mobile carriers?

anon4242 7y ago

> I'd be happy to MMS my uncle if it didn't cost like two euros per 640x480 picture Wow, where are you living? I haven't paid to send an MMS in nearly ten years...

lucb1e 7y ago
I've seen cheap contracts where SMS is unlimited, but never anything with unlimited MMS (Netherlands). I actually just checked what I currently pay for an MMS and youfone.nl doesn't even mention it in the price list. Since I have to ask, I guess I can't afford it :-)
- anon4242 7y ago
  Oh :O, up here in the north (Sweden) you have to look pretty hard to find a plan without unlimited everything but data.
- vxNsr 7y ago
  my understanding is that mms is part of data, that's how it works here in the US. RCS will also use data whenever it gets implemented.
leoedin 7y ago
It's the same in the UK. My phone bill is normally £12 a month - recently it was maybe £1 more. I checked what had happened - I'd accidentally sent a single mms to someone by including a link to google maps in a text message which got expanded into an image. There's a reason WhatsApp is basically the only messaging people do here - carrier based messaging is an exploitative money trap.