Building bridges without blue bubbles.

  • BuelldozerA
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    3 days ago

    Anyone still using “Text Messaging”?

    • InnerScientist@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I don’t know any person using sms for regular communication, everyone I know uses some kind of messenger app.

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        3 days ago

        Nearly everyone I know is still using SMS, even if they’re also messaging using another app.

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        2 days ago

        So because nobody in your life uses it, it doesn’t need to exist? What?

        Are you the most important person on the planet, or just incapable of thinking that other people’s lives might be different to yours?

        The point is to take the base communication technology (texting) and bring it to the 21st century without being beholden to some American company.

        • InnerScientist@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          Because no person in my life uses it I made the generalization that it isn’t used much, leading to my top comment.

          The point is to take the base communication technology (texting) and bring it to the 21st century without being beholden to some American company.

          Is this satirical? RCS is beholden to some American company as far as I can tell.

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            18 hours ago

            Hopefully you will learn not to generalise so brazenly in future ;)

            RCS is an open, standardised protocol implemented globally by the GSM. It isn’t beholden to an American company at all? The GSM takes advice from third parties (like the implementation of MLS) but acts independently. Yes, Google had a huge hand in the design and implementation of it but Google doesn’t own the standard protocol.

            Not sure if you’re just joking… but it is vastly, vastly better than using a messaging platform owned by a for-profit company like Meta.

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        2 days ago

        Like Whatsapp? I prefer to minimize the amount of data Facebook collects on me.

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          2 days ago

          SMS can literally be read by anyone spinning up a fake mobile tower, there is no e2e encryption and probably a few other security concerns I don’t even know, I’ll use WhatsApp before I use SMS as secure communication.

          Edit: RCS fixes (some of?) this but at this point why not use something even better?