Good. Everything Google touches needs to be forked.

The number of Europeans in here acting like What's App, which might as well be Facebook Messenger, is some sort of high road is hilarious.

2 weeks now on Graphene. This is what a phone OS should be, simple, boring, juste the basics without a shit-ton of bloatware and spying crap.

I hope it's functionally installable on other versions of android

Literally everyone should just use Signal. I really don't understand why we all don't.

For those who got too excited by the title: read the original messages from the GrapheneOS. RCS de-facto is not an open technology, there's a massive amount of work and multiple steps are needed to get anywhere near the proper independent implementation. It's gonna be amazing if the GrapheneOS team pulls it off, but don't get too excited about the release dates and its availability for other systems (e.g. Linux).

As a basic sms user, is RCS the reason my conversations now sometimes get flooded with messages like, "so-and-so loved this"?

Excellent! Since Signal removed SMS support there's no trusted app supporting old SMS and encrypted messaging on one UI

yooo! while i wait for mobile linux to be realistic for my device this is a win

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What the fuck is RCS?

Patiently waiting for supported devices expansion and no i don't want them to rush, i just don't want to buy a new phone to be free of Google.

Aw helllllllll yeah 😎

Very much needed.
This has been missing for years

A big hurdle with RCS was carrier adoption, at least in Asia.

I wonder about two things:

1. Would Graphene team’s implementation be usable on other devices that are less fortunate to be supported by the OS?
2. Would this be a drop-in replacement or would Graphene team need to work with carriers so that their implementation actually work?

On a tangential note, I would really like to read an in-depth analysis of how RCS had such a botched up implementation, which it has still to recover from almost a decade later.

The adoption is nowhere close to what it should have been, and instead it is now more associated with spam than actual communication. The Wikipedia entry does cover a lot of aspects, but it doesn’t explain how it went wrong.

It'll be a while I'm sure, but I'm here for it 🙌🏾

This would be great. Definitely one of the few missing features.

I've had my GV number as my primary for ~16 years. I've been on grapheneos for about a year now. Maybe I should actually pull the trigger and migrate my number to my provider and finally get RCS. All the better if GrapheneOS provides native support.