Building bridges without blue bubbles.

  • brax@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    I’d sooner ask “why do people care about messenger apps”? Like what? Why do we need 5 different programs to talk to people because everybody’s on different platforms - none of which are even domestically owned by my country or really controlled at all by it.

    RCS is slightly closer to a step in the right direction, but the fact that Google is so deeply latched into it still gives me some concern.

    • InnerScientist@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      They don’t need 5 programs, there are lots of messaging services that work across the major platforms that people use, I don’t understand why we would want a new , “official” client made by google which locks out anyone they don’t like (rooted devices, third parties) which doesn’t even have the advantages of already existing options in terms of privacy, usability, and security.

      Also they’d need 6 programs, the 5 they had before and now RCS.