RCS is worthless to me until there is a functional FOSS implementation.
this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2025
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Samesies, I just went back to Graphene on a new device and am back to the SMS/Signal/Discord combo for the time being. Oh, what I would donate for a self-hosted discord analog.
Matrix for sure still has issue, but its getting better constantly imo. I havent used discord for 7 years so i dont know what i might be missing, but i dont feel like i am missing anything. I got instant messaging, voice/video channels, screen sharing, etc. I dont care about stupid bots and stickers and such so maybe that would be an issue for people.
xmpp is close ish. snikket is dockerized
Prose and Snikket in particular both look to have promise and I really like xmpp also, but the lack of group calls/screen-sharing remains the sticking point. I may still throw up a snikket server tho, hosting mollysocket is just as intensive and I may as well own the entire chain.
Even if there is one, everyone else would use Google's and they'd have all your metadata anyway.
Nothing is perfect here, but I think federation would be best. The concern is the same one that caused Signal to drop SMS support (to my knowledge), that people might improperly trust the services that their anonymous service are federated to. Especially when you're federated to a chat service that is run by a company that also handles the synchronization of it's users contacts with their names, phone numbers, and email addresses.
But still, in a sane world, federation of services should be the goal.
I mean yeah, that would be best. Just not in any meaningful way.
Mabey if it's broken enough for stock Android it will get fixed sooner.
Yeah hopefully
Except no one (except FOSS projects) really uses stock Android anymore
Stock was the wrong word Google Android. If it's broken on what the majority of people use.
Does this mean I can't receive messages until it's fixed?
regular mms/sms should still work
That depends. Is it broken for you right now?
Nope. Tested it.