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by mort96 1387 days ago
I'm in Norway, one of the countries where most people don't use SMS.

As a result, there are some people I can only chat with on Facebook Messenger, some people I can only chat with on Telegram, some people I can only chat with on WhatsApp, some people I can only chat with on Snapchat, some people I can only chat with on Signal, and some people I can only chat with on Discord.

I'm not sure that's so much better than a single standard which everyone on every device on any software platform can integrate with.

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I’m in Italy and as long as you have the phone number, you can just use whatsapp. It’s the de-facto standard and everyone has it. I really don’t understand the problem.