Well, so far I am on GrapheneOS, using Typewise for a private but enhanced keyboard, and making use of proton vpn by default. Still no luck on rcs but I'm getting things working again.
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I still wouldn't trust RCS, it will most likely leak metadata to your the cell service provider. Have you tried installing Signal?
Yes. I use Signal and SimpleX.
95% of the people in the world do not have Signal installed. That makes 95% of my communications less secure because now the only way they will converse with me is SMS. It's all about layers of security and privacy. RCS the way I had it configured was at least E2E encrypted, which is better than everything being cleartext.
I'm sure I'll get the ironed out. My closest associates are on it, but my parents, etc will never use Signal.
I've been thinking about RCS in terms of "game theory". If some percentage of the population is using RCS, that's more likely to _decrease_ the likelihood of them installing Signal in order to get the features that SMS doesn't have, because RCS chat already has them. Could refusing to use RCS be a means to push Signal adoption?
+1 for Signal