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by wryanzimmerman 905 days ago
As someone who travels a lot, SMS based app stuff is one of the most annoying common problems.

It’s easy to find a way to get internet anywhere, but getting an sms message at a phone number is way harder (or easy but expensive); bonus points if you restrict it to local phone numbers only. Lots of countries require ID checks to get a local number and the system breaks with foreign IDs.