#Samsung is shutting down its text messenging app and forcing people onto #Google for SMS and MMS.

[starluna@mastodon.social]

@saucerlost @cyberlyra @TheBulletin Just to clarify: fail less than what other app? I wouldn't use SMS to send images but I imagine others would.

[saucerlost@mastodon.social]

@starluna
Fossify Messenger.
@cyberlyra @TheBulletin

[moldavia@mstdn.party]

@cyberlyra @TheBulletin
I switched to Fossify Messages. I tried a couple of others, but group messaging is completely broken after switching. All RCS chat's I was in don't work anymore. I can sometimes send, but I never receive anything.
Google took an open communication platform and turned it into a closed system by introducing "features" and calling it RCS.

[starluna@mastodon.social]

@saucerlost @cyberlyra @TheBulletin Thank you.

[zillion@freeradical.zone]

@GwenfarsGarden @cyberlyra @TheBulletin Mine notified me to switch yesterday. It still worked. I think it said something about when it would stop working, but I didn't pay attention, I just switched.

[ehasbrouck@urbanists.social]

@moldavia @cyberlyra @TheBulletin - I too have had issues with Simple/Fossify Messages group txts (esp. grups with MMS messages, which I think are default for iPhones?). I'm a longtime SimpleMobileTools user and like the other Fossify apps, but can anyone recommend from experience a better FOSS SMS app than Fossify Messages?

[garyfisk@fediscience.org]

@cyberlyra @TheBulletin

This shutdown will leave only two choices for RCS: Messages from Google or Apple. RCS has some nice features, but it's far from an open standard.

A tip for using open source SMS/MMS apps is to turn off RCS at the carrier level.

[verenarupp@social.vivaldi.net]

@cyberlyra @TheBulletin They don't have anything to offer for this particular issue, but lots of other nice things: https://european-alternatives.eu

[groxx@hachyderm.io]

@cyberlyra @TheBulletin this also helps entrench Google Messages as nearly the only RCS app out there.

which is a good thing only if it hastens RCS's death.

[groxx@hachyderm.io]

@noodlejetski @chris @cyberlyra @TheBulletin which is especially maddening since the initial Android reference code DID support other apps.

honestly I suggest treating RCS as "Google", but with the added benefit of "and platform-enforced to be only Google" and avoiding it.

[verenarupp@social.vivaldi.net]

@cyberlyra @TheBulletin I just installed Fossify on my phone. Looks like the app I had back on my old phone. My current one only had Google sofware for making phone calls etc.

[gwenfarsgarden@rage.love]

@catmisgivings @cyberlyra @TheBulletin I've never received a notification & I've been using Samsung phones for nearly 20 years.

My carrier, Phone Coop, hasn't said anything either. Ugh.

[gokushrm@mastodon.social]

@cyberlyra @TheBulletin fossify message or right message. Fossify contact & dialer or right contact. Both are grt for Privacy.. If u prefer smooth Ui but with more permissions thn go with right apps. If you want simple Ui but less permissions thn go with fossify apps. For measuring u can go with quik msg the best app
https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.octoshrimpy.quik.fdroid

[gokushrm@mastodon.social]

@ni_nad @cyberlyra @TheBulletin no

[bolomkxxviii@mastodon.social]

@cyberlyra @TheBulletin
I use a combination of Telegram and Signal. I occasionally get a regular text message, and I just moved to Fossify for those. Samsung trying to push me towards using another Google product rubs me the wrong way. Aren't they supposed to be competitors?

[encthenet@flyovercountry.social]

@cyberlyra

@TheBulletin

Do you know if fossify messages supports rcs? It's not listed on the page. It likely doesn't since it only mentions SMS and mms.

#Samsung #Google #techreclaimers

[gokushrm@mastodon.social]

@encthenet @cyberlyra @TheBulletin no

[daubertla@social.vivaldi.net]

@GwenfarsGarden @cyberlyra @TheBulletin what I read is that some Samsung phones have been coming with google messages for a while and not the samsung messaging app. I got notified on my phone two nights ago that it would need to be switched out by July 6th but read they are rolling it off so you may hav a different end date. My husband has not yet received the message and he and I have the exact same phones. I don't want to switch to Google for messages. I've cut as much of google off on my phone as possible.

[lopta@mastodon.social]

@cyberlyra @TheBulletin Alright, let's see whether I can install that.

[lopta@mastodon.social]

@cyberlyra @TheBulletin Well that was easy.