Google now : memes

[-] [email protected] 123 points 2 years ago

When people make a big stink about Apple not implementing RCS I always bring this up. RCS has an open core sure - but it’s lacking plenty of features that people refer to when talking about RCS. Furthermore, the gateways used for Google’s RCS implementation are made by a company Google acquired. Would we be happy with Apple charging cell providers money to install iMessage gateways at whatever cost they wanted, because they hold the patents? No, so why would we give Google a pass?

If we want to fix this issue, force Google to relinquish their control of RCS and open the standard unencumbered with patents. Require telecoms to implement the standard in full and without deviation or be fined. Give phone manufacturers a few more years to comply and then it’s done.

[-] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago

Are you running for a seat in the European Parliament next year?

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately I’d be running from Italy and well, we are a bit boneheaded at the moment.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

You ain't kidding!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Ouch. My condolences.

But hey, it's not just you though; here in Finland we've had eg. multiple literal neo-Nazis in the government – one had to quit because, you know, he is a neo-Nazi, but the extremist right wing party he's from replaced him with a pedophile neo-Nazi – and our Speaker of the Parliament has publicly fantasized on his blog about murdering gay people. And that's just the highlight reel, it gets so much worse.

Europe's a bit fucked, honestly.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

While true, apple remains the bigger hurdle here. They don't seem even willing to cooperate.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 2 years ago

Didn't we already have this for a breid shining moment with XMPP before Google and others broke it?

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

It’s not broken though. They broke their own forks of it.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Google basically Embrace, Expand, Extinguished XMPP.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Only “basically”!?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

"Broke" isn't really tye right word. The protocol exists and could be used but companies like Google added proprietary atuff that made it impossible to use it as an open universal "system".

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

my whole experience with matrix is deeply disappointing. devices getting out of sync, not being able to decrypt messages, missing notifications and that fucking mark as read not working are daily problems

dig deeper and you’ll find the causes of the problems, which are disturbing. e.g. a json string is hashed (however 2 equal json objects can be the same while their strings are very different)

the only reason I still use it is a room I want to be part of

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

How it's pretty good if it's in a pre-alpha stage? The reviews tell otherwise.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Matrix would be fantastic. Phone number accounts hosted on the carrier's instance, and can federate with other instances.

Something like (for an American phone number): @0014204206969:matrix.att.com and have each carrier share which phone numbers are assigned to which carrier in some common protocol so all you would need is a phone number.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Would be goated if everyone just switched to the Signal protocol and interop was mandated, but that'll never happen unfortunately.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Isnt signal protocol just encrypting? It doesent deliver messages

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Signal is a means for message encryption, and if every platform used it and then were mandated to interop, they'd have to figure out how to do the actual transfer, yes. RCS is basically this except nerfed and partially Google-owned which is shit.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

This is where Matrix comes in. Fully open source and supports federation the way Lemmy does. (Even more effectively, actually.)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Matrix is more of a Discord alternative than a Whatsapp alternative though unless I'm mistaken?

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

I'm OOTL with this. Anakin, what are you talking about?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

found this post

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Spell check was invented in 1971.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Meme is missing an s, literally unreadable

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Spell check existed way before 1971.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

When people make a big stink about Apple not implementing RCS I always bring this up. RCS has an open core sure - but it’s lacking plenty of features that people refer to when talking about RCS. Furthermore, the gateways used for Google’s RCS implementation are made by a company Google acquired. Would we be happy with Apple charging cell providers money to install iMessage gateways at whatever cost they wanted, because they hold the patents? No, so why would we give Google a pass?

If we want to fix this issue, force Google to relinquish their control of RCS and open the standard unencumbered with patents. Require telecoms to implement the standard in full and without deviation or be fined. Give phone manufacturers a few more years to comply and then it’s done.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

We can also go the other way around. Force Apple to make iMessage an open standard.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

That’s true, but there would be additional challenges. Outside of the US, Android dominates the markets to the tune of +80%. In order for such an effort to have teeth, there has to be incentive for them to comply. They could pull iOS out of the EU market and remove iMessage from macOS if it came down to it. They are already such a small percentage they might just eat the loss as the cost of protecting their walled garden. Unlikely, but a possibility nonetheless.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Seriously. Hold them all accountable. Don't be pro-google/anti-apple because you happened to give some money to one of them. Scrutinize both at all times.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

RCS will be closed?

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

The implementation google pushes for is, also couldnt find any foss rcs apps

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

there's the part that google added on top, which isn't open.

And then there's rcs itself, which isn't open either. You need to get a license from the gsma

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I believe this is the specification: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8591

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Google tries to make many messaging standards and programs

All fail because of mismanagement

This is supposed to be Apple's problem?

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

Google didn't create RCS. The idea was floated in 2008 and in 2009 the GSM association (Non-profit, representing 700+ mobile carriers across the world) began directing the project. Since then 47 mobile network operators, 11 equipment manufacturers, and 2 operating system companies (Google & Microsoft) have pledged their support for RCS.

In fact, Google only started implementing RCS in 2019 whereas Samsung has been releasing phones since 2012 with RCS. Now RCS is actively used by over 88 operators in 59 countries with almost 400,000,000 daily users.

tl;dr - Apple not using RCS is Apple's problem when the rest of the world does.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

It’s not about Apple or Google. There just needs to be a common standard.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It's not Android users who are getting ugly green text boxes on their phones.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Apple could open up iMessage.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I'm not really into these types of apps but I think matrix is close to what you're looking for.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

Ah yes, Failed to load image, my favorite messaging protocol

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Boost still uses reddit formatting i think https://matrix.org

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the laugh my sweet little internet hero of the day!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Google always

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