@me a nice feature of SMS is that you can put the metadata into the SMS so one can e.g. just fetch that one single message in matrix (once chatty supports this, l already added support to libcmatrix)
@agx@librem.one Yes, that's supperior if sending SMS is cheap or flat. I looked around for cheap SMS and it seems to depend on the volume: either a flat starting from 3,50€ / month or some internet service charging around 0,06 € / SMS.
And there are shady services offering SMS for free via form on the internet. I don't believe in services that are for free and protect my privacy.
The companies I use for calling I do pay already even though I believe that calling for signaling only might be against my contract.
I guess the best solution will be if people join into groups to drive a SMS flat to share the monthly price. The groups still would need to trust each member or at least the admins, because they have their numbers.
Implementing a notification distributor into chatty is a genius move . It'd be great if it could subscribe over IP as well. This could open the way to a protocol that avoids sending SMS in times the distributor is online and receiving notifications via IP.
This could work like a fallback connection: if the notification server doesn't detect the distributor getting a notification it'll fallback to pushing it out by SMS.
@me
I'm both extremely impressed and somewhat horrified 😅
Waking my #Librem5 from suspend when a new #matrix message triggers a notification.
Starring:
https://git.sr.ht/~chrichri/Librem5-wake-on-IM