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Need a replacement messaging app for Samsung (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by Hera@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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Trying to ditch Google messages without success. I hung onto the old Samsung app forever but it is super buggy for me. I tried to switch to textra, bought the paid version, but keep getting this "MMS timeout" message so idk if im not getting or sending messages correctly. Have tried all the fixes i found online to no avail. So, is there any real, decent alternative to Google messages?

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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 15 hours ago

Third party apps can't even SMS on iOS. On Apple's platform, you use their apps or you don't get the feature. The iOS implementation of RCS doesn't even yet support encryption. Apple is testing encryption between Apple devices.

That Apple and Google both hold the keys to what started out as an open GSMA standard, and now have a closed-source platform screams never trust it.