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Cake day: September 21st, 2023

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  • I try not to.

    I’ll happily use one or more of any of dozens of proper modern, network-based messaging systems. A few off the top of my head, none of which must be tied to hardware/sim/phone number (Signal is working on moving away from phone numbers, and it’s still not tied to a phone number the same way RCS is):

    Matrix

    Signal

    Conversations

    Simplex

    Wire

    Or pick an XMPP server and client, there’s plenty out there. I was using XMPP on my phone in 2009, chatting, sending uncompressed videos to people on desktops/laptops.

    Hell, even Telegram is a thousand times better than this RCS garbage.

    Don’t get me started on the privacy nightmare of WhatsApp… Holy shit, may as well not even care about privacy or encryption.

    (I have most of these messaging apps on my phones and my laptop, because they work).