Yeah good point actually… I’m still holding a little hope for RCS to finally be added to Textra someday so I can go back to that instead of Google Messages…
RCS has open spec, but implemanting it means dealing with phone networks and their policy. Also limiting operating systems like Android and iOS and a blocking factor.
No need to push it. Good old XMPP is better in every single way and exists since 1999. No tied to phone number, stable, proven, available on any device, with encrypted group calls and easy to host yourself.
RCS is open (though not a lot of implementations exist). Google invented their own Signal-over-RCS encryption (but are apparently using MLS for group messaging?) but that too is all open.
Theoretically any app van register itself as an RCS client, which I’m sure won’t cause any problems if you install multiple of these apps at the same time.
RCS is still pretty meh as a backing protocol, though, stuck with layers of servers and services because it’s a telco oriented protocol. I don’t understand why Google didn’t simply pick XMPP for their messaging platform instead of trying to push this weird amalgamation of services.
On the other hand XMPP people are still pretty pissed about Google Talk so I don’t think it would’ve made the platform any more open in practice.
Is Google’s RCS open? Last I heard, it was still limited to Google Messages, but it’s been a long time since I’ve paid attention.
Yeah good point actually… I’m still holding a little hope for RCS to finally be added to Textra someday so I can go back to that instead of Google Messages…
RCS has open spec, but implemanting it means dealing with phone networks and their policy. Also limiting operating systems like Android and iOS and a blocking factor.
No need to push it. Good old XMPP is better in every single way and exists since 1999. No tied to phone number, stable, proven, available on any device, with encrypted group calls and easy to host yourself.
RCS is open (though not a lot of implementations exist). Google invented their own Signal-over-RCS encryption (but are apparently using MLS for group messaging?) but that too is all open.
Theoretically any app van register itself as an RCS client, which I’m sure won’t cause any problems if you install multiple of these apps at the same time.
RCS is still pretty meh as a backing protocol, though, stuck with layers of servers and services because it’s a telco oriented protocol. I don’t understand why Google didn’t simply pick XMPP for their messaging platform instead of trying to push this weird amalgamation of services.
On the other hand XMPP people are still pretty pissed about Google Talk so I don’t think it would’ve made the platform any more open in practice.