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.

  • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Maybe they meant that at some point a few years ago Signal didn’t update their public open source server code for neraly a year or so while simultaneously rolling out new features.

    • Mikel@lemmy.farley.proOPEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

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

    • mashbooq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      To add to what others have said, Signal’s server code is open source, but they took the anti-spam module closed source last year