The EU wants to decrease reliance on American technology. Here’s what happened when a POLITICO reporter tried to live and work without it.

  • Vogi@piefed.social
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    22 hours ago

    I kinda feel like all dumb phones have to do is ship with an Signal client, the lack of WhatsApp was apparently the driving reason why the reporter went back and I think its more reasonable to expect friends to move to Signal than to SMS. (Its also really unsecure)
    There are a couple of community made clients I wonder how hard it is to implement the signal protocol.

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      20 hours ago

      To be fair, I recently discovered RCS messages. Very cool. I’ve been using those quite a bit recently and with many people I do not need Whatsapp anymore.

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              3 hours ago

              The person went back to the smartphone in order to use WhatsApp. I feel RCS is a better option as it doesn’t strictly need Google, the reason why it is google is that google has developed the only application which supports RCS.