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?

  • PublicLewdness@burggit.moeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I have switched my comunications to anything else. XMPP, Matrix, Session, Jami, etc. I text as little as I can. No matter the app the messages still go to my carrier.

  • miss_brainfart@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    The simplemobiletools apps are being forked by one of their bigger co-developers, so I’ll just use that as soon as it’s available.

    Until then, as long as you got the build from F-Droid, there shouldn’t be anything to worry about.

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
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    7 months ago

    You definitely shouldn’t invest time in SMS. Without RCS (or some custom messaging protocol support), “texting apps” are pretty much a dead market.

    RCS is both more secure and more user friendly than SMS can be by design. Once the iPhone gets RCS support in the coming months/years, this will be especially true.

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Plenty of services still unfortunately rely on SMS for 2FA, so we’ll still need a client to receive them. Doesn’t really need to be able to send them though, I don’t think any human has sent an SMS message deliberately for about 12 years!

      • apis@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        7 months ago

        SMS is my primary mode of contact with the rest if the world. I use Signal as well, but most people I know only use SMS.

        • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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          7 months ago

          So how do you have group chats or send files with your non-Signal contacts?

          • Jomn@jlai.luEnglish
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            7 months ago

            You don’t x)

            More seriously, in these cases, I often rely on emails instead. But I don’t really use group chats a lot (even with my contacts that are on Signal), nor send many files, so it’s not features I really miss. And SMS works with everyone, so it’s always my default if the contact isn’t on Signal.

      • scoobford@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I don’t think any human has sent an SMS message deliberately for about 12 years!

        sweats nervously in American

        • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          7 months ago

          I don’t know anyone in Canada that isn’t a new Canadian that uses anything other than the default sms app on their phone. (FBM and Insta and what not don’t count in my example).

          SMS is alive and well in Canada.