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Sms, now that's a word I didn't hear for a long time
I'd rather use SMS than Whatsapp. I also use Signal and am open to use any open source alternative but most people don't and aren't so the thing we have in common is SMS.
It's fairly popular in the US still for example.
OK. But most of NA uses SMS instead of some Meta product to message with.
I'll switch to something else when Canada gets data plans that don't suck, but until then I am going to make use of the unlimited SMS on my plan.
Yeah. Only use for me is shitty 2FA. Just let me use an app for god's sake.