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Unmet needs in text environments -- tools we need (self.text_ui)
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This thread is a whine and winge fest to collect complaints of functionality missing in our world of text UIs. I’ll start off with:

  • SMS 2.0 (“RCS”): The new standard for SMS (Rich Communcation Services) only has an Android 8.1 app -- nothing for the desktop at all
  • kbin/mbin
  • Lemmy: Neonmodem Overdrive seems dysfunctional; some servers have an old. FE which works with links browser because it has a JavaScript engine, but it’s a terrible UX; and nothing works as far as offering offline access.
  • Mastodon voting and poll creation: (though I have not tested https://brutaldon.org/)
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[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

I actually have no idea, what I'm talking about, but is RCS even possibly without a SIM Card?
I guess, it's just doing stuff over internet anyway, but is it hard linked to the SIM card, or how does it even work?

Not sure how much reach RCS has, but here in Austria, I haven't seen one using it - I'm still fighting to get people off WhatsApp and onto signal, not sure how much leverage I have for stuff like RCS

[-] evenwicht 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I’m not real familiar with RCS either but I got the impression RCS could be used to send an SMS to someone without having mobile phone service yourself. The old way was email gateways where you email $phonenumber@sms.$carrier.net and the msg is sent as an SMS (at no cost) to the recipient at that carrier. But those email-sms gateways are dying off and you need to know which carrier the recipient has.

BTW, I suggest avoiding Signal:

https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/issues/779

The free-world option is XMPP+OMEMO.

this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2024
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