You herd the group of cats that are all my friends, family, and work colleagues and get them to use a standard app that's not Facebook Messenger. 😆 You'll have to forgive me if I don't wait.

RCS, seriously? Not sure how that is outside the US, but it's a total non-starter if you're not using your phone in a Google-blessed configuration. Rooted? No RCS for you. No Google Play Services? No RCS for you. Don't like "Google Messages" and want to use any other messaging app? Believe it or not, no RCS for you.

Maybe if the day ever comes where Google is excised from the RCS infrastructure it'll be a viable option, but as it stands ( at least in the US where I have experience with it), it's definitely not a replacement for SMS.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

You herd the group of cats that are all my friends, family, and work colleagues and get them to use a standard app that's not Facebook Messenger

So much this, it hurts. Signal removing SMS support was the biggest setback to getting my friends and family to adopt secure messaging. I had such a huge percentage of people actually switching because they could use just the one app, and then Signal went and fucked it all right to hell! Now I'm back to a handful of contacts on Signal.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck RCS. The end.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I mean, RCS as a technology is fine. Just needs Google and Apple out of the mix. If it wants to replace SMS, it needs to be a carrier-run system.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It still requires lock-in to a device. That's utterly antithetical to network design concepts established in the 80's.

It violates the OSI model of layer independence.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago

I agree, but so does SMS/MMS. I'm only comparing apples to apples as far as the default messaging experience on the device is concerned.