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That is a text message, no?
I knew some reply to this would lead us down the road of semantic pedantry.
This is also a text message. Would you say I am texting you right now?
Its not SMS but PM's could totally read pretty similar.
And in most of the world they font use SMS; WhatsApp is the standard when someone says 'text me'.
Pretty weird of you to say commenting is texting. But hey, you do you
Texting has usually been associated with sending a text message to a specific target, or specific targets in a group text, but not a room, forum, or public space. So yes, dms and texting are virtually identical. Posting on lemmy, reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc would not be, unless you again specifically selected individuals to send a direct messgae.
TIL DMing is texting.
I come from pre-T9 SMS and yes, DMs are "texting". Texting doesn't refer to a protocol or transport, it's a message type. Holding onto texting only being SMS when it's a dying communication method worldwide is just silly. Did we originally mean SMS and only SMS? Yes. But definitions expand regularly and you don't want to be left behind because your clutching your digital pearls of old definitions.