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 15 hours agoRCS is just read receipts right? is there anything you’re really losing out on?
Grntrenchman@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
zerozaku@lemmy.world 9 hours 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.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
shit, I forgot about the image compression
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 13 hours 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.
Witchfire@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
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amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
E2EE
Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
RCS is encrypted in transit & preserves image & video quality that MMS can lose.