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.
Signal is great, but it was unclear if I would be able to self-host my own Signal server if I wanted to support the public network and provide redundancy to my local LAN and connected networks.
You can’t. Signal’s server is closed source. Only the clients are open.
I just discovered Signal open source the server. Please kindly disregard what I said. I had the old news in my mind (maybe).
Signals server software is open source. I suspect you mean the main signal network is closed and centrally controlled (it’s not federated basically) - anyone can run a private signal server (and network) but not as a node within the main signal network is my understanding.
WTF? Signal Server code is open source 🤔🤨
I thought it was something like that. What I really want to see is an open-source version of Briar.
Go look at SimpleX Chat. Decentralized, no identificators, very privacy focused.
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.
