[MattTheRealOne]

Email definitely has its issues, but given that every other form of digital communication is getting worse and more locked down, I have no confidence that a replacement would be better. While increasingly difficult to get self-hosted email to be accepted by the big providers like Google and Microsoft, it is still great to at least have the option of hosting a universally accepted form of communication yourself.

[BorisMelnik]

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.

[WorldMaker]

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).

[jprjr_]

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.