Anyone know of any good SMS/MMS/RCS clients

submitted 4 months ago by wazzupdog (they/them)@lemmy.blahaj.zone

I hate the stock app and I'm sick of handcent for a myriad of reasons. I'm looking for anything that's fully customizable and just works.

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4 months ago , edited 4 months ago

Ty it looks pretty sick

4 months ago

I use that myself though haven't sent a sms/mms in like > 10 years. Anyhow FOSS > stock spyware any day. The fossify project has many other useful tools as well.

4 months ago

There are no other RCS clients, just Google Messages.

4 months ago

Samsung messages too, but that's not really an upgrade

4 months ago

And Samsung is dropping their app in favor of Google Messages AFAIK.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-messages-preloaded-samsung-phones-no-samsung-messages-3463077/

^*~ bat signal for Lina Khan ~*^

Honestly can't believe Google was so explicit in calling RCS an "open standard" and then turning around and doing this

4 months ago

I don't have an answer for you, but I have a caution...

I once worked for AT&T and worked on AT&T Messages.

DO NOT USE IT, if it still exists, if you're with AT&T. At the time I worked on it, there was no encryption except in-flight (https) -- which means if I had had production access (and some people who worked there at my level, definitely did), I could have read all messages, blobs, everything. I was told after I quit that they intended to add encryption, but since AT&T would still hold the keys, it's useless.

4 months ago

Silence - a Signal fork is actually still quiet decent. Simple and support for encrypted SMS. Which is a fun feature.