• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    From what I understand RCS isn’t controlled by Google, Google merely operates a RCS instance in a federated ecosystem.

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      7 months ago

      RCS the oficial standard is open yes. But Goggle’s implementation has added proprietary bits and changes that aren’t in the spec. Even if they opened their servers nobody could use them anyway.

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        7 months ago

        But Goggle’s implementation has added proprietary bits and changes that aren’t in the spec.

        They added encryption based on Signal, so hardly proprietary. Encryption apparently is being incorporated into an upcoming revision of the RCS spec, no word on the algorithm to be used, though.

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      7 months ago

      That is correct. However, Google does control Android and has not added the ability for other applications to interact with RCS, other than Google Messages and the Samsung messenger.

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        7 months ago

        Google does control Android and has not added the ability for other applications to interact with Google’s RCS instance RCS, other than Google Messages and the Samsung messenger, whereas all those joyn branded messengers that exist since a decade need to access their own servers.

        FIFY according to the best of my knowledge.

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          Ah, okay then. As long as anybody can set up an RCS instance, then and communicate with the people on the Google servers, then that’s fine. But if for example, fossify cant setup an RCS instance there would be no need for fossify sms messenger to exist.