Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger?

• Grntrenchman@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    shit, I forgot about the image compression

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    • LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    MMS

    people still use MMS?

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• Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  RCS is encrypted in transit & preserves image & video quality that MMS can lose.

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• Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Emoji réactions

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• amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  E2EE

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