Are there any apps that support RCS that aren’t made by Google or a crappy cellular provider (ie: bloatware Verizon apps)?

I appreciate the features RCS has, but I’d love to get that without sending it all to Google with a “trust us” approach to backdoor keys. The documentation I looked at indicated that anyone could setup an app to support RCS and communicate with Google’s RCS users, but I can’t find any apps that actually do that.

Also would love to be able to message from multiple devices using RCS, which Google has working in their web app.

  • MikelOPEnglish
    0•1 year ago

    I thought it was something like that. What I really want to see is an open-source version of Briar.

      • MikelOPEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        I just checked and you’re right! I looked into Briar a while ago and ignored it because I couldn’t run the Briar-Mailbox program on Linux.

        • @AbidanYreEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          I don’t think it runs on iOS yet either, which may limit who you can contact with it.

          • MikelOPEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            I have an off-grid Linux box that hosts a local Wi-Fi network and some communication and entertainment apps. I want to host a chat service for asynchronous off-grid comms. Briar looked like the perfect option if I could just add the mail-box to my Linux box.

            Simplex looks like it might do something similar, but it doesn’t look like it does comms over direct Bluetooth.

            • @AbidanYreEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              It doesn’t. But you can run your own server pretty easily.

              You could also check out Jami. It doesn’t do direct Bluetooth but it works on a lan if you run your own dht… proxy? bootstrap server? It can also do local discovery over udp, but I haven’t tried that yet. I think async may chew up battery though

              Maybe your own matrix server?