With simple messager selling out & qksms no longer being actively worked on. What’s our options for open source sms messagers?

Should I dedicate time to learning flutter and building my own or does anyone know any cool foss projects working on this issue?

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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    9 months ago

    You’re right, I’ve updated my reply… Hopefully someday that will be a generic RCS feature not exclusive to Google and/or Apple and Google will work to make the E2EE work between their two systems.

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      9 months ago

      Apple said something along the lines of wanting to develop an encryption standard with the GSM Alliance. Which basically means the Alliance would represent two major companies instead of one. I’m not exactly holding my breath for what Apple’s standards will be, as iMessage is unsurprisingly not as good with encryption as Google Messenger (which uses Signal’s protocol at least).

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        9 months ago

        If the MLS group messaging encryption protocol can get finalized any day soon then they might use that