Here in the rest of the world that doesn’t use miles for distances, having to use something other than your phone’s SMS/RCS app (that goes through your carrier) has been a norm for quite a while.
You can clearly tell that this is news mostly for the US audience (who also uses stuff like voicemail instead of calling again - who the hell even listens to their voicemails?).
IDK why anyone is salty about your comment, dumb af everyone is using Viber in many countries, actually shit I think they moved on from it to a new one, point stands, idk we got our own domestic shit here now. Don’t necessarily need FOSS entirely bc our ass is not owned by Jeffrey Epstein.
article writer just found out about Signal
Signal doesn’t send messages via your carrier, like a “text”.
if I am not mistaken, neither does RCS.
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True, it’s IP-based, but RCS can fall back to SMS which is handy sometimes
Here in the rest of the world that doesn’t use miles for distances, having to use something other than your phone’s SMS/RCS app (that goes through your carrier) has been a norm for quite a while.
You can clearly tell that this is news mostly for the US audience (who also uses stuff like voicemail instead of calling again - who the hell even listens to their voicemails?).
IDK why anyone is salty about your comment, dumb af everyone is using Viber in many countries, actually shit I think they moved on from it to a new one, point stands, idk we got our own domestic shit here now. Don’t necessarily need FOSS entirely bc our ass is not owned by Jeffrey Epstein.