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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    1 year ago

    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.

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        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.