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Re:Blackholing My Email by BorisMelnik on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @10:32AM (#47676019)
my theory is that if rcs keeps advancing we might see "texting" kind of merge with email at some point.

at this point RCS and email are pretty similar on paper.

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Re:Blackholing My Email by WorldMaker on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @12:57PM (#47678235)
RCS is incredibly centralized. More than half of the phone carriers decided it was too complicated to run their own RCS servers and so just sub-contract them to a Google subsidiary (Jibe).
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Re:Blackholing My Email by jprjr_ on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @04:21PM (#47680857)
To be fair that seems to be the path email is going down. Most businesses don't want run their own email and just use one of two big providers.
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