Twenty years too late for a “protocol” that is bound to hardware - something we decided was a bad idea forty years ago, and part of why TCP/IP became the standard.
XMPP is a far better protocol, and has had all the features of RCS for 20 years.
XMPP does have something that breaks my heart: it bounds encryption to a very specific client. So forget about migrating to something else and keeping your history somehow. Which is very sad for supposedly interoperable protocol.
Fuck RCS.
Twenty years too late for a “protocol” that is bound to hardware - something we decided was a bad idea forty years ago, and part of why TCP/IP became the standard.
XMPP is a far better protocol, and has had all the features of RCS for 20 years.
I will never use RCS.
XMPP does have something that breaks my heart: it bounds encryption to a very specific client. So forget about migrating to something else and keeping your history somehow. Which is very sad for supposedly interoperable protocol.
Are you talking about omemo and a scenario where you buy a new device and want to sync your entire history from the server?
Most clients also offer OpenPGP which has the properties you are looking for.
You don’t even need another device. You might just want to try another client app. You’d be screwed. That’s very, very sad.
That is how perfect forward secrecy is supposed to work.
XMPP is for grey beards
We need something clean and modern