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submitted 3 days ago by Hera@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

Trying to ditch Google messages without success. I hung onto the old Samsung app forever but it is super buggy for me. I tried to switch to textra, bought the paid version, but keep getting this "MMS timeout" message so idk if im not getting or sending messages correctly. Have tried all the fixes i found online to no avail. So, is there any real, decent alternative to Google messages?

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[-] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Any special features you're looking for? Fossify messages works fine for me, and it supports both SMS and MMS. In fact, the entire Fossify suite of apps works really well in general.

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