Google’s work could encourage the adoption of MLS, much as it did with RCS.
How can you say what Google has done is “encouraging RCS”? They literally monopolised it.
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RCS has been around since 2010
15 years and it’s still problematic? Sounds like something that just needs to be let go.
Stop pushing this garbage that’s tied to hardware/sim/phone number on us. What value is that for the end user, seriously? Why would an end user today want a messenger that’s tied to a phone number?
Fully-functional, cross-platform, network-based, open-source instant messaging has been available (even on mobile) since 2009, maybe earlier.
What I always ask about RCS: who benefits today from a messaging system that’s hard-bound to a phone number?
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What??
The RCS API on Android is only available to Google Messages and whomever Google allows (like Samsung Messages when they existed). This is the reality.
If the RCS API was truly open there would be an explosion of FOSS alternatives to Google’s spyware.
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Except it’s not all messaging apps cause google messages is the only android messaging app with rcs support
Except it is because the article is about mls and not rcs
Do we have any reason to think that Google would want to not collect data?
The idea of standards like that is that the company cant collect data, obviously that wont stop google.
But the nice thing is that it means you can talk to people who refuse to install signal or matrix from those apps, once the protocol is established
For those who thought this was a serious question:
No
Does this protocol actually mean arbitrary cross-app messaging or would that require the app developers to coordinate in some way?
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They’re working on something other protocols have had for years. 🤦🏼♂️
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I doubt it will ever happen but it would be amazing if I could just have one messaging app and message whomever I want on whatever platform I wanted, without having to using some crazy bridges.
How about we just get people to switch apps
With you.
Fuck RCS. It’s trash. Who benefits from a messenger, in the 21st century, that’s tied to a phone number?
