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Most of my friends here in Sweden use Signal. But on the rare occasions that we had to switch back to messages lately, for example when Signal was down, I notic
by INTPenis 11mo ago
Most of my friends here in Sweden use Signal. But on the rare occasions that we had to switch back to messages lately, for example when Signal was down, I noticed RCS has been working flawlessly.
It's quite the nice surprise because it's a technology you heard about years ago and now suddenly it crops up in daily life. We all gave up on it years ago too and used other IM apps like Signal, Briar or SimpleX.
- garbagewoman 11mo agoRcs existed years ago?
- Jtsummers 11mo agoIt was originally started in 2007 and first deployments started rolling out around 2012. The US carriers were just spectacularly bad at implementing it, so Google swooped in and did it themselves. Then they extended it in non-standard ways and added E2EE. Good, but not standard so also not as helpful as it sounds because if your conversation partners aren't (or weren't, maybe it's better now?) using Google's implementation then your conversations were sent in the clear, just like MMS and SMS before it.
- cweagans 11mo agoYes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
- immibis 11mo agoFWIW SimpleX is owned by some not very good people.
- INTPenis 11mo agoExplain.
- immibis 11mo agohttps://xcancel.com/epoberezkin https://xcancel.com/epoberezkin
- ranger_danger 11mo agoWhat are we supposed to be outraged by here exactly?
- qzio 11mo agoYou where all on android I presume? Since RCS does not work on iPhone in sweden. NONE of the carriers have support for it, they support it for android but not ios.