Although I had Trisquel, which is based on Ubuntu, I am glad that people using other distros like Fedora can now have Signal. By the way, for deGoogled phones, you can use Molly-FOSS, too. It’s a fork of Signal and interoperable with it.

Thank you! I would like to buy a degoogled phone, too. But I really need RCS since many people don’t want to use Signal, Telegram, Matrix, XMPP etc. I may buy Motorola with GrapheneOS, not sure yet.

I use Molly-FOSS from F-droid.

Enjoy your phone! Could you tell me if RCS messages work on Google Messages?

Great news for vegan community. I hope other countries will do the same.

I agree with you, there isn’t any other RCS messaging app.

Yes, because people refuse to use FOSS messaging apps. So we have to use the lowest common denominator SMS/RCS. I also have Signal, SimpleX, XMPP, Delta Chat and Threema.

If you know a better way to send RCS messages from a computer, you are free to tell us. I would be grateful. :D

Yes, it’s true. But at least, you don’t need to create/use a Google account for it.

I put ‘solved’ because it has the solution, not only a question. Then, I will change it. I used deGoogle, because it removes the need of Google account. Everyone is free to share this information everywhere, I discovered it after many attempts.

Open Source or Free > Source available > Closed source. Okay, I am glad that you allow me to see the program that I use. But if you don’t allow me to edit it to my needs or preferences, I won’t use your product.

Using non-free (proprietary) software and believing we are free to do anything we want with the software. But we can do only what the app (the devs) let us to do. We can’t see or edit the code of program to run as we wish.

I have it. I would use it if I had contacts there. Compared to Signal, it doesn’t force you to provide your phone number, which is great.

Another big reason to switch to GNU/Linux.

Yes, phone number should be optional for easy contact discovery, not mandatory. As Threema. You have to provide your ID when buying a sim card.

I wanted to switch from a proprietary centralized platform to a free federated one. The only inconvenience is that I find a group with same name on multiple instances, each with its own content. Instead of one containing them all.

I have it and used it in the past. It’s better in privacy than Signal since it’s decentralized and doesn’t use any identifiers. Signal forces you to use the worst identifier ever: your phone number. It should be optional (as Threema) for easy contact discovery, not mandatory. Back to SimpleX, I stopped using it because every time you have to connect the computer to phone if you want to use it from computer (it’s for maximum security, but inconvenient for me). But it’s a great app.

Some financial rewards would be better than nothing, of course. But governments have no interest in doing that. Because they want new work-slaves to bring them money each month from working 8-9 hours a day.

1. Using software; 2. Telling my friends about it; 3. Helping others in forums; 4. Donating money, or bitcoin when available; 5. Running software that helps the network (Full Bitcoin Node, Tor Relay, SheepIT Render Farm - for Blender); 6. Translating.

Yes, sim calls and sms are not private, both on dumb and smart phones. They also connect to cell towers so your location might be found. Anyway, I think the hardware and software of a smartphone is more capable of surveillance you than a dumbphone. The only realistic way is to leave the phone home and keep a paper list of your contacts at you. And call them from a stranger if you need to. I did this and the biggest inconvenience is that I can’t take pictures or videos (I might buy a camera, I don’t know if they have location system incorporated).