/g/ — PSA to retarded europeans: SMS/MMS exists too

>>109053807 (OP)
MMS costs £0.30 each
SMS can't send pictures
Both very expensive internationally
Both not encrypted

>>109053838
fpbp
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op btfo

>>109053838
hmh, nta, so, maybe there's a strictly network over internet protocol we can use? detached from private companies and all?

Simplex is the best.

>>109053807 (OP)
Viber and Messenger are both garbage. Haven't used Whatsapp and Telegram.

I miss MSN/AIM/ICQ. Just a tiny app in the taskbar with minimum resource usage, that also auto logs conversations. Shit, even Skype could do that much.

>>109053838
>MMS costs £0.30 each
Illimited and free.
>SMS can't send pictures
False
>Both very expensive internationally
maybe
>Both not encrypted
You can't trust your phone. You can't trust any electronic devices, I thought it was a given.

>>109053807 (OP)
If you wouldn't yell it into a megaphone, you shouldn't send it over SMS.

>>109053807 (OP)
>saying this when iMessage is the only other major contender
And, no, people don't use iMessage for SMS/MMS. They actively bitch about it when the bubbles are green.

>>109053807 (OP)
This map is inaccurate or outdated.

>>109053807 (OP)
Smoke signals and semaphore exist too.

>>109053807 (OP)
SMS is a garbage technology only used for legacy reasons, similar to email.

Pretty much the only reason anyone uses it is if the country is unfortunately enough to be fulled cucked by Apple since everyone defaults to iMessage and have to use SMS as a backup.

>>109053807 (OP)
only boomers use viber in the balkans, others are unfortunately retards and use whatsapp instead of telegram

>>109053807 (OP)
>>109053838
Recently, I've been getting people in the states nagging me to install WhatsApp even though SMS/MMS is free here. Granted, I live in a very hispanic infested area.

>>109053807 (OP)
Joke's on you, I don't use any of those aplications, I don't even have them installed on my phone.

>>109053865
I've set up XMPP for my family. In theory if someone else does the same it would federate as well.

>>109053807 (OP)
it's almost sad just how much albanians want to gobble westoid cock

>>109053807 (OP)
>SMS/MMS exists too
yeah the jeets love it

>>109054122
I have a friends that are dragging their feet getting both XMPP and Meshtastic setup. The public MUCs are both depressing and entertaining to watch. Mesh is mostly autists attempting watercooler talk.

>>109054149
Same could be said of Croatia and Slovenia.

It's funny how Viber is sompopular with balkanistant and adjacent, must something deeply cultural. Also Telegram has literally best UX and UI since like forever, but it never took off outside of eastern europe. Kinda shows.

>>109053838
Even ignoring cost, the last part is the bad thing. Pathetically, it's better to trust Facebook or Google than the telecom carrier, who also has data retention liability.

>>109054025
nice try, Ivan

>>109054314
No it isn't.

considering messenger and whatsapp are both owned by meta its strange how they have never been merged

>>109054314
>SMS
>Read by telecom and governemnt
>Messaging "apps"
>Read by government, megacorp, and anyone they decide to sell your data to

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>using tracking dog collar sims in the 26

>>109053807 (OP)
sms and MMS are boomer technologies. when are mutts going to catch up?
or is this a psyop about maintaining blue bubble supremacy?

>>109053807 (OP)
psa to you retard, kill yourself now so i dont have to filter out these threads also i dont use a phone, its made for you american niggers

What do you think of signal

I'm an ugly incel so I dont use chat apps

>>109053807 (OP)
>mutt obsessed with Europe #23749723904729374972364723648726341

>>109053807 (OP)
>SMS/MMS exists too
is it 2004 again?

me and my gf use the lovense remote app to text

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>>109054303
theres nothing particularly "culturally" specific, it just the first app that became widespread and popular here, and all kinds of businesses and organizations adopted it, so you are kinda forced to use it nowadays. i get all my bank messages or bills through viber for example
its fucking dogshit, but its just too ubiquitous at this point.

i think most people, especially boomers, use messenger for everyday chat with their friends tho, viber is more for businesses contacts . whatsapp and telegram are also kinda popular for groupchats.
also, (((viber))) is israeli, and they are REALLY advertising it hard to companies and shit
t. bulgarian

>>109054862
>get all my bank messages or bills through viber
How did we get to this point

>>109053807 (OP)
Unlike you dumb amerimutts we don't pay 100$/month for carrier plan with mandatory unlimited sms.
>>109054370
Telegram is the only one with open-source client unlike other major IMs that send all your messages to Israel by default.

>>109054891
by companies being gigajewish and not wanting to pay the telecoms for SMS, i guess

>>109053807 (OP)
>SMS/MMS
Unc, did you get stuck in the 90s?

>letting Meta have access to all your chats and photos

because they made it retardedly expensive and never reduced the price

>>109054906
Email is free...

>>109054963
no one checks emails

>>109054972
Skill issue

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>>109053807 (OP)
>siri pull up their owners' early life section on wikipedia and tell me it's a coincidence

>>109055034
>european are dumb cattle because of DA JOOZ

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Max > *

>>109053838
>MMS costs £0.30 each
WHAT THE FUCK!? Is it still 1999 over there? lol

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>>109053838
>MMS costs £0.30 each
The country that invented phones, ladybirds and /g/entoomen!

>>109053838
Yes first post covered it. They added 4g/5g internet to phones with MB/s up/down and still charge for SMS, it's fucking stupid.

>>109054963
It also has to be setup, and so far there hasn't been a major way to one-step setup the correct type.
And email handles are a nightmare.

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>>109053882
Why are Americans so obsessed with iMessage

>>109054972
Kill boomers and zoomers

>>109055263
Okay now show me at least one bank or bill service that does not demand your email address. And besides Telegram, don't IM services require email as well?

>>109055354
?
If you don't get it, and choose not to read the post, its fine. But don't go crying about it.

>>109053807 (OP)
> pic
All 4 are controlled by either US, Russia or Israel. Grim. I'm surprised there are no chinks in this business.

>>109053807 (OP)
In my country and on my carrier, it is enough to send 88 SMS messages to spend the same amount of money as my monthly carrier payment. I'm scared to even check how much MMS costs.

>>109055208
Shut up goy.

>>109053872
>Viber
Mossad.
>Messenger
Zuck
>Whatsapp
Zuck
>Telegram
GRU

>>109055316
i am using it on date 1. need to filter the bitches.