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Wild question I never thought I'd be asking, anyone know a stripped down SMS app I can use instead of the default?
I don't want to see AI features and I don't wanna participate in helping anyone build a LLM
I've been using the Fossify SMS Messenger for a few weeks now and it does everything I need a messaging app to do.
My recommandation, stop using SMS
Switch to E2EE chats
I've tried, but literally everyone else I know absolutely hard refuses to switch to Signal. So, L I guess.
And here is the exact reason Signal dropping SMS was a terrible decision.
Yup. That's the whole reason I kept using signal. I got 2 or 3 people to start using it while the rest stayed on sms. It kept all my other SMS messages in the same app. So it was seamless to transition between one or the other depending on who used what.
I actually quit using signal when it could no longer be my SMS app, just because it became too much of an annoyance to remember which people did and didn't use signal.
Yeah. Very few of the people I know have any interest.
Up to you what you choose to share when the information goes over open air
The shit I send via sms is like "Do you want pizza tonight" or "how far away are you". Anything more detailed gets turned into a phone call. It'd be cooler if it were Signal but alas, family habits die hard.
For sure, my family took to it because Hangouts was being deprecated and we wanted a new group chat system. Easier for them since they had already adapted to a more modern text system, but I used it as an opportunity to get them onto a more secure platform and they did!
Signal Matrix etc are the way. Good luck in the future.
https://github.com/octoshrimpy/quik is an active fork of QKSMS
Alternatively, https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fossify.messages/ exists
I'm not sure this can be done more easily without root access as many Android services and Gapps are intertwined.
You can try this solution via ADB, this is just an example
pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.app
As for SMS app, I use QKSMS
I just saw this, it's available on f-droid and play store
https://github.com/deku-messaging/Deku-SMS-Android
It's not FOSS but I used Textra for years and it's quite great. I don't think it supports bubbles, but it's worth checking out
Textra or Chomp SMS.
Textra is more feature rich but I had a problem setting custom notifications on Xiaomi phone so I switched to Chomp. Fun fact: both are developed by the same developer.