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  • KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.caEnglish
    175·
    1 year ago

    It’s not about that. It’s about moving people over.

    You know why RCS is picking up steam? Because it’s 1 app. If the person you’re talking to has RCS, you’ll send messages via RCS. If they don’t, it’ll fall back to SMS. If RCS was a separate app from SMS, adoption would be really low.

    Older people especially don’t want to juggle 2 apps. If you get your dad on signal, and then his friend who uses SMS messages him, he’ll be back in his SMS app and won’t go back to signal, meaning the next time he messages you, or anyone else that has signal, he’ll instead just send an SMS since he’s already in the SMS app.

    Removing SMS fallback was a surefire way to kill adoption of signal.

    • beeng@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      55·
      1 year ago

      My parents are 60+ and if they want to talk to me they use whatsapp and signal just fine. How are you sending baby photos? MMS?

      • KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.caEnglish
        62·
        1 year ago

        That’s great. Most older people aren’t juggling two apps.

        I’m also not sending baby photos because fuck kids, but if I wanted to send photos, it wouldn’t be compressed over signal or WhatsApp.

          • KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago
            • Any of the million storage options (Proton Drive, OneDrive, Gmail, Mega, etc)
            • Google Photos in full quality
            • Sending a public link that is self hosted on my NAS

            I dont use MMS, I use RCS, and even then, if I cared about quality, I am not sending it directly via any chat service as they will compress it.

              • KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.caEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Well if you look back and read, you’ll see where I said I’m not sending baby pics, so no, I’m not juggling separate apps.

                If someone wants to send me a pic, MMS is fine, because it’s good enough quality to get the point across. If I cared about quality, I’m not using any messenger, including signal, to send my photos. I’ll send them uncompressed another way.

                Signal removing SMS fallback was dumb, plain and simple. I’ve switched to Google messages now where I can use encrypted RCS and fallback to SMS.