Samsung is shutting down messages and pushing the use of Google’s messenger. Are there alternatives? I don’t want to give Google that much personal info to train its AI or to give the regime an avenue to getting my info.

  • NumG@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    What I never understood: you have to pay your carrier for SMS services, but RCS is free (just need internet, mobile or wifi) like iMessage is also free? Rght?

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      2 months ago

      Free, sure. There is only one app that does it, with huge dependency on Google and/or carrier (whoever runs the servers), which could just… stop working one day, like it did for me.