Comment on The state of open source SMS messagers

• scoobford@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think any human has sent an SMS message deliberately for about 12 years!

  sweats nervously in American

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  • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know anyone in Canada that isn’t a new Canadian that uses anything other than the default sms app on their phone. (FBM and Insta and what not don’t count in my example).

    SMS is alive and well in Canada.

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My condolences. But seriously though, what if you want to have a group chat, or send a file?

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      • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Plenty of group chats that mix iMessage and sms, just through iMessage, or just sms group chats.

        Most new Canadians I interact with have WhatsApp, however, as I understand that’s quite popular abroad.

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• petrescatraian@libranet.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @smeg Me and my friends use it as a fallback for mildly urgent stuff. If anything is more urgent, then we call each other.

  @Dark_Arc

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• apis@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  SMS is my primary mode of contact with the rest if the world. I use Signal as well, but most people I know only use SMS.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So how do you have group chats or send files with your non-Signal contacts?

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    • Jomn@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You don’t x)

      More seriously, in these cases, I often rely on emails instead. But I don’t really use group chats a lot (even with my contacts that are on Signal), nor send many files, so it’s not features I really miss.

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      • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Blimey, you and I have wildly different use cases, I don’t think I’ve sent an email to someone who wasn’t a business for decades!

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    • nymwit@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Group chats work over SMS. I use cloud links for large files or just SMS/MMS for pictures and you just live with the low quality if texting with an iPhone user.

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      • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        SMS doesn’t have group chats does it? Unless your client is just sending the same message to everyone and grouping together the responses?

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    • apis@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It has never occurred to me to do either of those things, and apparently hasn’t to anyone I’m in contact with either.

      Though I don’t use group chats or send files in Signal either, so there’s that.

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