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Signal tests usernames so you can avoid sharing your phone number (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let me guess American? In Europe basically everyone uses Whatsapp, lots of people use Telegram some use signal. I use all of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep, you are correct.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah when I got my first smartphone and whatsapp wasn't around yet I had to pay like 10 or 15 cents per sms. So when WhatsApp became an option everybody and their mother jumped ship and joined. For a while sending an sms and getting back I'm on WhatsApp was a thing.

Nowadays I think sms is basically part of your plan an for most plans unlimited. But they milked it way too hard back in the day. So most people just don't use it at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Wild but now things make a lot more sense, I've had unlimited texts for the majority of the time I've had a cellphone.