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Any Open-Source RCS apps yet?

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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.

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

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FarLine99@lemm.ee
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Go look at SimpleX Chat. Decentralized, no identificators, very privacy focused.

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Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
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Briar is open source, but yeah, check out SimpleX Chat

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Mikel@lemmy.farley.proOP
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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.

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

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