SMS Messaging Debate
Discussions center on the viability of SMS for communication, critiquing its reliability, costs, cross-platform limitations, and outdated features compared to modern apps like WhatsApp or Signal protocol.
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the app supports SMS for convenience, but that's not "using signal" as in the protocol
You mean stop using SMS, switch to WhatsApp.
SMS isn't cross-platform and costs money.
Ah, it's like a 900 number, but for sms.
And they can just use regular SMS?
Maybe I'm missing something, but why not just use sms?
This may be an ad for some SMS platform.
SMS is not reliable. Messages are routinely lost.
I guess it's back to SMS then
if this was an email based service that might encourage me to test drive it... not sure why sms was the chosen option?