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I tried to switch from iPhone to Pixel 10 Pro Fold with GrapheneOS, but I needed RCS to work. Unfortunately, even installing Google Messages and allowing it permissions wouldn't allow RCS to work for more than 36 hours before I had to go through the whole install and allow process again. I would be willing to cut off all Google services, even banking apps and whatnot, but I need RCS to work. I'm unfortunately an American and cannot reliably expect my friends and family to use an app other than iMessage to text, so I need RCS.
Will Motorola provide some GrapheneOS compatible RCS client? If so, I am likely to switch.
Could force them to use Signal perhaps
Yeah, see that's the thing that I think people don't really understand about americans. They won't. I will be essentially excommunicated. I already mostly am because I don't use Facebook or Instagram. Cutting off decent messaging by leaving imessage without at least maintaining RCS would really cut me off.
I got a few of my best buds on Signal (I am American). Told these guys I got no social media and basically Signal is iMessage for Androids
American here, I've been insisting on signal for years and it's going fine. If you're cool enough people will follow your lead eventually, it's a better experience and everyone else waiting to switch is being held back by the same excuse. Take your good posts and go home (to open platforms)
I am not nearly cool enough
Lmao, but I've found it's less about being cool and more about being firm. I've got three friends that I told very plainly "I will no longer be reachable via SMS, please use Signal". Bear in mind that 1) these are people who love me a lot, more like family than friends, and 2) I didn't try to shame them or demand they stop using SMS entirely. I just said "this is how you reach me now". All three installed Signal, and one of them now uses it as their primary method of text communication like I do.
Not saying it's easy necessarily, and I doubt this method would work for acquaintances rather than family or close friends. But every little helps, and it's a place to start.
Can confirm that this works - even better if they said no and then later ask you to send something "hey can you send so and so's contact card" or. "Photos form the event"
And then you say "Yes, on Signal"
They will download right there
*~~don't use~~ amn't used by
This right here, I have never had any luck moving a single person I currently communicate with from iMessage. Dating makes this even more complicated.
Lol fr. Well I'm not a dater person by any means but my mindset is they kinda have to be tight friends with you first right? Unless you date around like crazy and don't develop actual connections
We have wildly different dating philosophies. Friends for me always stay friends. If my intentions ain’t explicitly romantic at the outset they never get there. Additionally I’ve had a lot of deep connections by dating around.
But this kinda illustrates part of the problem with dating. None of us seem to have the same approach or philosophy