Comment on Whatsapp is going to run terribly...

• moitoi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is US defaultism. People doesn’t care about sms capabilities outside the US. The US isn’t a huge market for Signal.

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  • Acamon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it did effect things. SMS is weirdly popular in the US (i think it’s might be cause they didn’t use it much in the 90s?) but people I know in France and UK still use texts for some things, even if messaging apps are where most of communication happens (French people even use mms which is insane).

    I know that I managed to convince a number of tech-shy people (including parents) to get Signal by telling them replaced their sms app, so it wasn’t a whole extra app / network they needed to use. It was great for me because I could ditch WhatsApp completely. But when signal stopped supporting sms they went back to just whatsapping and texting, so I cracked and reinstalled WhatsApp to keep in touch with them.

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  • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Liberia

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• TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No one I know use SMS for chat. The last SMS I had sent was 3 years ago.

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  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I only use SMS for some communication because the only other form of communication my phone can do is calls. But I have to be careful with that because they’re paid and not unlimited.

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