Whats a good and proper alternative google message thats clean but better with privacy? - for texting

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨epicthundercat@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

I am looking to replace my phones text message client with something better. I am trying to make my phone clean, minimalist and less addicting (degoogling too). I even installed Niagara launcher, to give an idea of the kind of aesthetic I am looking for. Is there anything out there folks reccomend? Bonus points if its ethical and pro-privacy.

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kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I don’t use any of these suggestions, but the ones I keep hearing are Quik and Fossify Messages.

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- Godnroc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ve been using the Fossify messenger for a while it is is largely fine. It does not offer proper reaction support, showing “🤣 to ‘MESSAGE’” or some such, and it doesn’t offer to copy authentication codes from a notification. Other than that, it works well.
  
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  - Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    and it doesn’t offer to copy authentication codes from a notification.
    
    I actually does have that now 🙂👍
    
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chillpanzee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I don’t think any of them support RCS, for whatever that’s worth to you.

The only place I really miss that is with a fantasy football shit-talking group chat. Otherwise, I’ve tried to move away from SMS/MMS/RCS. It’s hard to pull people away from iMessage.

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- GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  unfortunately as far as I know RCS is closed down. only Google messages on android and iMessage on iOS support it (maybe some other proprietary options, but no FOSS options).
  
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  - adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    RCS requires server-side processing, so it requires the org providing it to be large enough to be able to peer with the other orgs providing it and the telcos routing it.
    
    And the encryption isn’t part of the core RCS soec that’s compatible between providers.
    
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trashcroissant@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Im not sure about the ethics of this company, which is Australian based, but I’ve been using Textra for probably 10 years now. It does base off the base messenger app, so messages are still put through google but I’m not sure that any apps can avoid that.

Otherwise though it’s clean and customizable. Pretty basic features like blocking, group messaging, reactions all work. The thing I like best is you can compose a message and reply directly from the notification bar. I think it’s something like $3 to remove ads forever, I paid forever ago and haven’t had any issues transferring through phones.

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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Almost any messaging app is better, the question is what do your friends use, and can you get them to switch.

I’m a fan of XMPP because it’s an established protocol you can host yourself (if you wanted) - this removes untrustworthy providers.

It’s really what’s your goal?

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Feddinat0r@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Fossify messages

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not_me@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Go to https://fmhy.net/

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cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You mean for SMS? Doesn’t Signal handle that as well?

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- moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It used to, pulling that was their biggest mistake since requiring a phone number and made me trust them a lot less
  
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  - adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Why would Signal removing support for an insecure messaging platform make you trust them a lot less? They were pretty clear about why it was done and gave plenty of warning.
    
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  - PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah, biggest product feature for me, and when they dropped it I dropped them.
    
    Why can’t we habe nice things? It’s all going to shit. Either because of greedy corpos, or because of bad people (sometimes one is caused by the other).
    
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moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Deku SMS (on fdroid) is nice to use and all, but I’m not really sure how “ethical and pro-privacy” can apply to an sms client

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sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Currently I am using “Connect You”. It integrated both messages and contacts, which is nice. Doesn’t have a dialer though, so I use Fossify Phone with the contacts function disabled for that. I find Connect You’s method of showing contacts more aesthetically pleasing than Fossify’s, but that’s just personal preference. Lots of people also like “Quik SMS” (a continuation of “QKSMS” I think)

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sefra1@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I use Quik, idk if it’s the best or the worse, but it works well enough to receive login tokens which is what I use SMS for.

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zerozaku@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I use QuikSms

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hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
YAATA is very good, sadly its abandoned and not FOSS. I’ve never seen any network request from it tho I block it these days.

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