WhatsApp is more secure than SMS, but that is not a huge achievement. Signal probably is the best messenger that is both very secure and easy to use.
Some people prefer messenger platforms to SMS, because the default SMS apps on Apple and Android intentionally make cross-platform communication worse.
Messenger platforms on the other hand are more consistent and behave the same on every device.
RCS is also a walled garden. Embrace a messenger app that everyone could use today like Signal or Whatsapp
Problem are the Android users as well that refuse to adopt messaging apps just as much.
Standard protocol on Android is SMS as well. RCS behaves differently from carrier to carrier and many Android phones still don't support it by default.
Even if RCS worked perfectly fine, if Apple doesn't want to use it, than RCS is just as worthless as iMessage, when it comes to cross-platform communication.
I am devastated. At least MSN Messenger will never disappear.
They can get the same information even if defederated. Your profile info is completely public regardless.
Does your friend group have no group chat? SMS does not have a group chat feature I think, right?
Usually group chats and media sharing are the features that bring people over to messengers.
If the extension you want to install is also on github, you oftentimes also get some easy instructions on how to install the necessary collection for this extension.
Still not very usable for casual users. I think on F-Droid there are some fairly uptodate Firefox forks with all extensions unlocked
Switching platforms to something more convenient for everyone makes sense.
Breaking your friendship, because your friend does not use the same messaging solution as you seems like some weirdass reality tv tier plot line.
That being said, even I as a filthy Android user can not imagine to ever use these "green bubble" SMS texts. If someone were to send me a SMS, I would rather call them and claim that these SMS/iMessage texts cost a lot of money to send and to receive with my data plan and make them change to some other messenger app.
Signal, Discord, WhatsApp, fucking Yahoo Messenger, I do not care.
I would even consider to get some AirMessage setup for this, just to avoid to ever being forced to send some goofy ass SMS.
They did not even mention which city or village they are located in right now (or plan to visit)
I can not believe a person exists that actually looks through Lemmy posts to determine what laptop to buy in some mystery area in Iraq. It's kind of a funny post tho.
I guess it is just not a popular feature on mobile. Most smartphone users don't even know what a browser is, so ensuring addon support seems to be very low priority for Mozilla. Even a switch hidden somewhere in the about:config page in Firefix Nightly would be enough. These extension collections are the most user-hostile way of extension support possible. I just switched to Kiwi because of that mainly.
I think there are some Firefox forks with the entire extension store enabled, but I have not looked into this.
American Android users are part of the problem, because they refuse to use messenger apps and cling onto SMS as well