@dallin@fosstodon.org Google has a #GetTheMessage campaign now: https://www.android.com/get-the-message/
Not too long ago I got an Android phone, and went to college. Making friends, we got in a group chat, and eventually me and I think one other in the group were discovered to be the ones with Android, though they didn't mean it in a rude way.
But still, it can cause interpersonal gaps. Harming personal messaging between your devices and a competitor's is one of the saddest forms of #bigtech #vendorlockin I can think of :(
@golemwire @dallin
The compounded tragedy is that RCS (what Google wants the world to use) is crap:
* The carrier still gets to snoop on your messages
* There is no open source implementation
* The RCS messages are saved to a DB that cannot be backed up by regular SMS tools. (This is a deal breaker for me, because I must be able to save all texts in a human readable format for legal reasons).
iMessage is a far better replacement for SMS than RCS.
But XMPP or Signal is better, still.
@RL_Dane @dallin@fosstodon.org At least with Google Chat, RCS messages can be end-to-end encrypted*. But I don't know how much that means if G-Chat's E2EE method is proprietary/G-Chat only.
*Except group chats I think.
Did some research, it looks like Google is/might/will use the Signal protocol and perhaps support E2EE group chats in the future, and open these up beyond their chat app(s?). 🤞🤞
