Ah okay. Looks like it will only work for certain instances. I don’t think I can add any others besides these ones.

If Jerboa can follow comment links from the inbox natively, why does it let Android handle the links everywhere else? Maybe Jerboa could insert a little link button next to every hyperlink so that you can choose whether to open a link with Android or natively with Jerboa.

Oh, hell yeah. Now, how do I open a link to a post on a different instance than mine from within my instance (also without getting sent to my browser)?

They could still keep iMessage, but just automatically fall back to RCS instead of SMS/MMS. God forbid!

The app integration is fine, although I don’t know what integration with a payment app is supposed to accomplish. I was confused about it when Signal tried to incorporate a payment feature. Rcs group chat encryption is supposed to be there, but I don’t have any groups to test it where everyone is using a compatible messaging app.

I tried for years. I’m over it.

It doesn’t even occur to them that they also break features on the Android users’ ends as well, but I only see iPhone users complaining. It really isn’t that big of a deal to share a file over SMS/MMS with a link rather than trying to share the actual file directly. Is that difficult to do on an iPhone?

I might set it up, since I already use Instagram, but I’m not sure how much I’ll use it.

• I already have accounts on mastodon.social and jorts.horse, so what’s the point for me?
• I wouldn’t be able to post to Threads like I do to Twitter since my family are all on Instagram. They wouldn’t get it.

Are you implying that the RCS that comes with Google Messages is significantly less modern than whatever ships with iPhones?

Edit: Or, are you saying that most Android users wouldn’t care if that was the case?

The point is that it’s not really Android users’ problem. There are options for iPhone users and, yes, if they really want to use the native iPhone messaging app they can complain to Tim Apple. Cc: @[email protected]

I never understood the complaint. If iPhone users don’t like the way Apple messaging works with Android contacts, they can just use an alternative like Whatsapp. Right?

Interesting, but don’t you think they’ll just wall it off like how truthsocial.com is walled off?

It would be nice if instances each had an XMPP server.