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by ryukafalz 2143 days ago
As someone who dabbles in alternative mobile OSes (and would like to switch to one full-time again soon), it's frustrating when there isn't a fallback option to standard protocols. Thankfully email/SMS are still fairly ubiquitous, but I don't like the idea of that going away for something important like banking and being locked into one of the big two platforms.
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Godspeed. SMS is unlikely to ever improve, consider more durable alternatives.
Email is fine too! Or maybe RCS in the future, though I’m not sure if there’s a free RCS stack anywhere yet. But honestly, though I rarely use SMS for personal communication these days, it makes a pretty good fallback, and it’s damn near ubiquitous.