With simple messager selling out & qksms no longer being actively worked on. What’s our options for open source sms messagers?

Should I dedicate time to learning flutter and building my own or does anyone know any cool foss projects working on this issue?

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
    25·
    11 个月前

    You definitely shouldn’t invest time in SMS. Without RCS (or some custom messaging protocol support), “texting apps” are pretty much a dead market.

    RCS is both more secure and more user friendly than SMS can be by design. Once the iPhone gets RCS support in the coming months/years, this will be especially true.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      11 个月前

      If you message cross-platform from Android to iOS, and you can’t get everyone to agree upon a 3rd party app, then you’re kind of stuck with sms. This isn’t a problem that is going away in the near future. Apple relies on their locked messaging platform to influence their users into thinking iOS is the best. The users then pressure all of their friends to get iPhones too. It’s an effective strategy for them. Very few iPhone users seem to understand the games being played.

      • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
        1·
        11 个月前

        You’re right, I’ve updated my reply… Hopefully someday that will be a generic RCS feature not exclusive to Google and/or Apple and Google will work to make the E2EE work between their two systems.

      • nymwit@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        11 个月前

        Samsung messages has Google’s RCS implementation and E2EE, too.

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      11 个月前

      Plenty of services still unfortunately rely on SMS for 2FA, so we’ll still need a client to receive them. Doesn’t really need to be able to send them though, I don’t think any human has sent an SMS message deliberately for about 12 years!

      • scoobford@lemmy.oneEnglish
        9·
        11 个月前

        I don’t think any human has sent an SMS message deliberately for about 12 years!

        sweats nervously in American

        • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          11 个月前

          I don’t know anyone in Canada that isn’t a new Canadian that uses anything other than the default sms app on their phone. (FBM and Insta and what not don’t count in my example).

          SMS is alive and well in Canada.

          • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            11 个月前

            My condolences. But seriously though, what if you want to have a group chat, or send a file?

            • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              11 个月前

              Plenty of group chats that mix iMessage and sms, just through iMessage, or just sms group chats.

              Most new Canadians I interact with have WhatsApp, however, as I understand that’s quite popular abroad.

              • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
                1·
                11 个月前

                SMS doesn’t have group chats does it? Unless your client is just sending the same message to everyone and grouping together the responses?

                • scoobford@lemmy.oneEnglish
                  3·
                  10 个月前

                  I don’t know about the underlying technology, but every client I’ve used for the past couple decades supported groups.

                  However, they absolutely sucked. There was no way to leave. Unless someone made a new group without you and everyone used that, you’d keep getting messages.

      • apis@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        11 个月前

        SMS is my primary mode of contact with the rest if the world. I use Signal as well, but most people I know only use SMS.

        • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          11 个月前

          So how do you have group chats or send files with your non-Signal contacts?

          • Jomn@jlai.luEnglish
            4·
            11 个月前

            You don’t x)

            More seriously, in these cases, I often rely on emails instead. But I don’t really use group chats a lot (even with my contacts that are on Signal), nor send many files, so it’s not features I really miss. And SMS works with everyone, so it’s always my default if the contact isn’t on Signal.

            • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
              2·
              11 个月前

              Blimey, you and I have wildly different use cases, I don’t think I’ve sent an email to someone who wasn’t a business for decades!

          • nymwit@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            11 个月前

            Group chats work over SMS. I use cloud links for large files or just SMS/MMS for pictures and you just live with the low quality if texting with an iPhone user.

            • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
              1·
              11 个月前

              SMS doesn’t have group chats does it? Unless your client is just sending the same message to everyone and grouping together the responses?

              • nymwit@lemm.eeEnglish
                3·
                10 个月前

                I mean, maybe? I’ve used group texts with every sms client on every android smartphone I’ve ever used. Don’t know how it works on the backend.

          • apis@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            11 个月前

            It has never occurred to me to do either of those things, and apparently hasn’t to anyone I’m in contact with either.

            Though I don’t use group chats or send files in Signal either, so there’s that.