Didn’t we already have this for a breid shining moment with XMPP before Google and others broke it?
It’s not broken though. They broke their own forks of it.
Google basically Embrace, Expand, Extinguished XMPP.
Only “basically”!?
“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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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
How it’s pretty good if it’s in a pre-alpha stage? The reviews tell otherwise.
I sure hope it (matrix) doesn’t go full Skynet on us
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.
Would be goated if everyone just switched to the Signal protocol and interop was mandated, but that’ll never happen unfortunately.
Isnt signal protocol just encrypting? It doesent deliver messages
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.
This is where Matrix comes in. Fully open source and supports federation the way Lemmy does. (Even more effectively, actually.)
Matrix is more of a Discord alternative than a Whatsapp alternative though unless I’m mistaken?
For Element, Matrix’ flagship client, you are correct.
Anyone can build their own clients, however, and apps like FluffyChat & Syphon aim to mimick the look and feel of WhatsApp.
I’m OOTL with this. Anakin, what are you talking about?
Spell check was invented in 1971.
Meme is missing an s, literally unreadable
Spell check existed way before 1971.
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RCS will be closed?
The implementation google pushes for is, also couldnt find any foss rcs apps
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I also think that, but im not sure, what I am sure is that the Google implementation is not
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wtf I didn’t even think about checking if RCS was open source, I thought it was obviously! I was hoping so much from RCS, are SMS also proprietary?
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
I believe this is the specification: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8591
Google tries to make many messaging standards and programs
All fail because of mismanagement
This is supposed to be Apple’s problem?
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.
It’s not about Apple or Google. There just needs to be a common standard.
It’s not Android users who are getting ugly green text boxes on their phones.
I’m not really into these types of apps but I think
is close to what you’re looking for.
Ah yes, Failed to load image, my favorite messaging protocol
Boost still uses reddit formatting i think https://matrix.org
Is putting a ! infront of a markdown link not standard for an image? That’s why it’s doing it.
Lemmy does use some different markdown formats than I have usually seen, so maybe it’s not a standard just the common thing.
Edit: oh you meant the other way around. Anyway, weird that Reddit used that for links.
Thanks for the laugh my sweet little internet hero of the day!
Google always
what’s that font?
Pixel mplus 12
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