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As a counterpoint, all this hullabaloo around removing SMS being a bad idea is weird to me. SMS' ongoing popularity seems to be more specific to the US/NA area. That's likely the biggest market since it seems SMS is free-ish for phone carriers there? The rest of the world moved on from SMS ages ago except for marketing/spam/OTPs.

I welcome more replacement of SMS over time globally.

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I agree SMS is a terrible standard in terms of privacy/security but as I do live in North America and frequency communicate with iphone users (and Android users but they don't have "green bubble syndrome") that have no intention of using Signal I need an SMS app. Back when it was TextSecure I had separate apps and really detested it since I only knew one other person with TS so it was basically my app to talk to him. Now I'm going back to that model except I maybe have 3 contacts that I talk to regularly that use Signal. That's hardly worth it.

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