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There are no real alternatives to Google Messages. There are lots of SMS apps. None of them support RCS, because Google won’t let them. So any alternatives will be a downgrade at lest in that regard.

I’ve used most of the SMS apps out there, none are nearly as nice a Google Messages. It’s a shame, but it’s true. I’ve kinda settled on Textra for now, but I’m always looking for something better.

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BruisedMoose@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Textra

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- sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
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- Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Textra turned out to be what I use
  
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- Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Theybstole QKSMS reply in notification tray feature thats all I remember. Better times.
  
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  - EponymousBosh@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    There’s a fork of QKSMS called Quik SMS that’s still being developed! That’s what I use now.
    
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sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
RCS is just read receipts right? is there anything you’re really losing out on?

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- Grntrenchman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Internet-routed media transfers, bypassing some (very) shitty filtering done by carriers. Most will compress and downscale any media sent via MMS. A friend didn’t have RCS until recently, and I always had to remember to send links and not actual pictures because they would always recieve unreadable garbage if I let the carrier transfer it. But really, ANY other messaging app solves this… Signal, Telegram, Discord, even Steam Chat will blow the pants off MMS.
  
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  - sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    shit, I forgot about the image compression
    
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    LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I’ll get complaints from people they can’t add/remove members from a group chat, and it’s because I’m in the chat, and use Google voice.
    
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  - zerozaku@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    RCS is pretty much useless for my country which relies heavily on other messaging apps like WhatsApp/Telegram. I use SMS only for OTPs and stuff so I’m happy without any RCS in my life.
    
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  - basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    MMS
    
    people still use MMS?
    
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- Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  RCS is encrypted in transit & preserves image & video quality that MMS can lose.
  
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- Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Emoji réactions
  
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- amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  E2EE
  
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fizzle@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
There are also no others that have a good web ui, Google Messages web ui is pretty great honestly.

That said, they recently rolled out a requirement to log in to to your google account to use that and I think that might be the line I refuse to cross.

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