@farooqkz I can relate to this, because it happened to me when I switched from #KaiOS to #Mobian as my main phone for a while. Feature phones do really have the most important feature!

@jcbrand nice!! Looking forward to seeing how the performance enhancements work out #KaiOS (once I manage to downstream it to #Convo)

@bshankar I have a #KaiOS phone which doesn't support #RCS, and I thankfully don't receive much #spam on #SMS either, although many of my friends seem to get the same. (That's why many have stopped checking SMS unless they need an OTP or something)

Do you find RCS spam to be similar to SMS spam? Also, I'm guessing RCS supports rich content like images and stuff? So does the spam include that as well?

@JessTheUnstill @bohwaz @punkfairie @ajsadauskas @tomiahonen @fuchsiii Exactly...

Coincidentially, that's why #Android (and #iOS) doesn't let users have #root access because billions of devices owned by mostly "#TechIlliterates" that hardly get #SecurityUpdates would be an even bigger risk if they didn't boot a locked-down #ROM image, thus only allowing for #malware in user-privilegued userspace!

• I'd even go so far that I'd wish for @torproject to basically merge fmr. #FirefoxOS / #KaiOS & @tails_live / @tails / #Tails to build a #privacy-focussed #ROM for #Smartphones and #Tablets i.e. "#TailsMobile" or sth.

Cuz having a mobile OS that shoves everything through #Tor and only allows #userspace-Apps in the form modern web technologies would be a big #security and #privacy gain.

• Not to mention #amd64 is on it's way out and inevitably they gotta have to transition to supporting #arm64 and eventually #RISCv-#64bit at some point.

@bohwaz @punkfairie @ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen That's exactly the problem, cuz #KaiOS nee #FirefoxOS was a good and solid basis not just for #LowEnd-Devices but could've been excellent for a more #secure mobile OS, as it has good potential for #sandboxing and #KISS-principle'd #Apps that are lean and efficient.

But then again when enthusiasts like @fuchsiii and I were shouting "#ShutUpAndTakeMyMoney!" to #Mozilla, they basically refused to sell any #device, and then we get the "#PSvita-Effect":

• Noone's gonna build an #App for a platform that is essentially a rounding error from the start!…

@punkfairie @ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen @fuchsiii Yeah and #Symbian is used with cheap phones of a brand named #Swisstone.

Case in point: #KaiOS nee #FirefoxOS is now drowned in obscurity because of #Mozilla mismanagment and hamfisted approach compared to #Android.

@BrodieOnLinux

#KaiOS is dying slowly. I'm a BananaHacker: https://wiki.bananahackers.net https://blog.bananahackers.net

Incidentally, it's this interoperability that allowed me to make #Convo, an #XMPP app for #KaiOS flip phones

Would anyone use the app? Well, I do, for one! And that's the beauty of open protocols—you don't need to have millions of users convincing a company to add support for their devices: even one person can be enough! (I'm happy to say that Convo is useful for more than one person, as it has been downloaded more than 800 times so far)

https://git.disroot.org/badrihippo/convo

@WuMing2 Thanks for the test report! I will try to improve the app for touch devices as well. It was originally intended for #KaiOS (dumbPhone), although the app controls work a little differently.