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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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[โ€“] dingus 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just use SMS. I don't need to install anything extra or make some sort of extra account somewhere. Phone plans here have had unlimited texts for like over a decade now so we aren't spending extra money here to send texts either.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not on SMS you don't.

[โ€“] [email protected] 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.