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speaking of alternatives, what brand do people hate that actually has a decent alternative? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Kerred@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I know people prefer to complain instead of act, but what is something people don't like but has an alternative?

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[–] mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, RCS is garbage, And googles messaging woes are entirely of their own design, see: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/

[–] perezoso@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

A lot of reading there, I'll be honest, I cherry picked a few bits.

It is for the most part not the best but I still use it for sending uncompressed images. If you use the Google messages SMS app it does offer a bit more. I still think they should get a bit of Kudos for trying but at the same time. The iterative death, rebrand and rebirth of Google messaging platforms has been terrible. Allo was the worst in my opinion.