• ditty@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Meanwhile I can’t even get my boomer mom to switch to Google Messages from Samsung Messages because she’d “have to relearn how to use it.” Then she just continues to complain that she can’t send messages over WiFi, and that when she sends or receives pictures over SMS they get compressed… 💢

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      6 months ago

      Doesn’t Samsung messages support RCS? I know it did at one point. You just had to go into the settings and enable the option.

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      6 months ago

      I had several friends and family switched over, until they killed SMS support like idiots. I now know maybe one or two people using it, and barely use it anymore.

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        6 months ago

        They killed SMS support? Maybe not in Germany as an exception, I still use Google messages to recive spam SMS.

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            6 months ago

            Oh yeah sorry, I’m really stupid early in the morning. I read something else in this thread about Google Messages and just assumed it was related. I didn’t even know Signal had SMS support, that honestly sounds like a good feature

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              6 months ago

              Nah, the comment was referencing signal from two layers up in the conversation, when Google messages was only one layer up.

              For me, the whole reason I switched to Signal was because it would do both encrypted and SMS. Then they repeatedly made terrible decision after terrible decision and when they dropped SMS I had zero reason to keep using it. I don’t like that Google messages is run by Google, but at least I don’t have yet another messaging app to deal with.