With simple messager selling out & qksms no longer being actively worked on. What’s our options for open source sms messagers?

Should I dedicate time to learning flutter and building my own or does anyone know any cool foss projects working on this issue?

  • scoobford@lemmy.oneEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think any human has sent an SMS message deliberately for about 12 years!

    sweats nervously in American

    • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know anyone in Canada that isn’t a new Canadian that uses anything other than the default sms app on their phone. (FBM and Insta and what not don’t count in my example).

      SMS is alive and well in Canada.

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        My condolences. But seriously though, what if you want to have a group chat, or send a file?

        • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Plenty of group chats that mix iMessage and sms, just through iMessage, or just sms group chats.

          Most new Canadians I interact with have WhatsApp, however, as I understand that’s quite popular abroad.

          • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            SMS doesn’t have group chats does it? Unless your client is just sending the same message to everyone and grouping together the responses?

            • scoobford@lemmy.oneEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              I don’t know about the underlying technology, but every client I’ve used for the past couple decades supported groups.

              However, they absolutely sucked. There was no way to leave. Unless someone made a new group without you and everyone used that, you’d keep getting messages.