Why not just listen to the music for free on YouTube too? Because it's a music streaming service, and idk why you think you should be getting things more for free.
As much as they like to pretend RCS is an open standard, it's really not. In practice, it's a proprietary protocol to Google Messages. Which the other commenter mentioning custom roms, Google recently blocked platforms that they dont approve of from using RCS.
They will just figure ways to make new walls, or be as malicious in compliance as possible. Reminder: walled gardens are always anti-consumer, no exceptions.
Great platform name. Though I like the idea, but it's currently only one developer. It's the same dev behind Pixelfed. He's a good dev, but I feel like he's stretching himself too thin to make both platforms the amount of development they need to pick up steam.
Who cares lol, if you suspect then just jump to another instance. You aren't helpless. They could start banning people for writing an odd amount of vowels if they wanted to, and they'd be in the right.
Never heard of this project. I mean sounds like a cool mod, but why is this news, and why does a mod need to care about a release date? They're not selling a product, they can release whenever lol.
Sounds like they've been following this well... Except replace "security" with AI.