nethad@feddit.chtoAndroid@lemmy.world•Google Messages now encrypts RCS conversations by defaultEnglish
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1 year agoRCS is not a Google product but the official SMS successor.
RCS is not a Google product but the official SMS successor.
Even better if this could be a lemmy feature I think, but client-side would be good too
I would love to have this too. Big and active communities drown the less active ones and I would like to have different groups of topics to be able to not miss those less frequent posts.
Either way sounds good. Is this a feature already in lemmy or Sync?
That’s true, and I’m not a big fan of that either, I’d like to not have to rely on Google as well, but they do interoperate with other providers (for example with my provider) because it’s a standard. I don’t see how they discontinue RCS unless the whole standard fails to succeed, which seems unlikely.
And since they encrypt the messages, I see less of an issue with them providing the service, it’s just store-and-forward of data they cannot read. Of course it would be best if every provider implemented RCS on their own and the Google backend would not be needed, but most of them dragged their feet until Google stepped in and enabled it for the rest of the world.
I don’t think it’s fair to lump RCS support in GMessages in with the rest of their products, even though I’m also skeptical of any product launches by them these days because they have a bad track record.