I tried going back for a while, but when I couldn’t connect on VPN, I left again.

I guess they were expecting even worse?

Nope. I’m constantly on the edge of quitting lemmy because of this shit.

And the id3 which is pretty much the same size

Unless the EU makes them, they’re not adopting rcs. I could see them putting out an imessage app for Android though. Probably ad supported to make the experience extra shitty for us. They’d quickly own the messaging market, at least in the US.