This thread is a whine and winge fest to collect complaints of functionality missing in our world of text UIs. I’ll start off with:
- SMS 2.0 (“RCS”): The new standard for SMS (Rich Communcation Services) only has an Android 8.1 app – nothing for the desktop at all
- kbin/mbin
- Lemmy: Neonmodem Overdrive seems dysfunctional; some servers have an
old.<server name> FE which works withlinksbrowser because it has a JavaScript engine, but it’s a terrible UX; and nothing works as far as offering offline access. - Mastodon voting and poll creation: (though I have not tested https://brutaldon.org/)
I’m not real familiar with RCS either but I got the impression RCS could be used to send an SMS to someone without having mobile phone service yourself. The old way was email gateways where you email $phonenumber@sms.$carrier.net and the msg is sent as an SMS (at no cost) to the recipient at that carrier. But those email-sms gateways are dying off and you need to know which carrier the recipient has.
BTW, I suggest avoiding Signal:
https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/issues/779
The free-world option is XMPP+OMEMO.