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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by tsugu@slrpnk.net to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.

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[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Your options are RCS, Signal, or Lemmy mentions. Or losing contact with me I guess but I'm irresistible

[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"I only talk to other nerds" basically

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Nah everyone has RCS these days except people with old phones and iPhones, and even the iPhones are going to be rcs compatible soon

[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The average person just has no idea about RCS or protocols in general and are incidental adopters of it just like SMS. Sometimes these nerd debates about platforms and protocols emphasize technology features over actually connecting with people or doing something productive on said technology.

[–] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I'm a nerd. I know vaguely what RCS is because I had a discussion in 2019 with a friend about it. Do I have it? Do I use it? I have no idea. Is it an app or just a protocol that happens behind the scenes? I would assume the latter. My phone's a few years old, isn't everyone's? Probably that means I don't have it. No way to tell and I'm not going to bother trying to find out.

I'm so much more technical than most people btw

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What is RCS?

[–] owen@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

It's a messaging standard, it's pretty much SMS + Internet features. Developed like a decade ago and apple he been trying to dumpster it since then.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

So.... proprietary data collecting thing owned by Google, service that requires phone number to sign up, or service that does not even pretend to be E2EE and (worse) routes chat traffic through multiple potentially-adversary-controlled servers on its way to you?

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
  1. RCS is licensed GSMA, not owned by Google
  2. Signal requiring a phone number is a REALLY minor drawback
  3. Obviously lemmy mentions would not be for messages intended to be private, but for anyone to see, just like this one here.
[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You know RCS is not proprietary, right

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

But like saying Android isn't proprietary.

Like yeah, technically true, but in reality everybody uses a proprietary version of it controlled by Google.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 8 months ago

it might as well be with how much control google has over who gets to implement it and how

[–] shapis@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

RCS, Signal, or Lemmy

I wish. But I don't know a single person that uses any of those.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Most of my friends use Signal. Honestly hadn't heard of RCS till now. Either my phone only supports SMS or I'm too technologically incompetent to enable RCS.