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Here in South Europe people mostly use Viber. Edit: I was very unaware about situation in Southern Europe as I've learned from this post... Most people in Croatia use Viber!

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[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

SMS is notoriously unreliable, plus insecure as hell.

As in it's known across the industry that upward of 10% of messages fail, and since SMS lacks error detection (and thereby no error correction), you have no idea when your message never arrived.

[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

We have read reciepts, granted idk how those work all together

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Not on SMS you don't.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Not on SMS you don't. I've seen SMS apps that claim to have verification, at most that's a verification the edge router of your service received it.

Since there's no error detection, there's no way to universally implement read receipts across vendors.

SMS is a best-effort system. Like shouting at the clouds, unfortunately.

[-] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure that if you have read receipts on your default messaging app on Android, you are using RCS, not SMS.

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