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Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely::The Apple-versus-Beeper saga is not over yet it seems, even though the iMessage-on-Android Beeper Mini was removed from the Play Store last week. Now,

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Are there any FOSS RCS apps for Android?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The only RCS apps, to my knowledge are Google Messages and Samsung Messages.

Not sure why.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well as I can't use either of those on my degoogled Android device, Apple using RCS is irrelevant, and they should use a more open standard, like Matrix.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Matrix is a terrible standard but otherwise I agree.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What do you suggest, I was just giving an example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Signal protocol is probably the best open standard?

Hard to say, they all come with their compromises but Matrix would never work, it's just too slow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Signal removed it's RCS support:(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Actually, I was thinking it was RCS. It was regular text messages. Thanks for the correction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately RCS is on the carrier side. The most basic chat system built in by the phone carrier will likely have RCS.