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• Paddy_NI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m not in the US either…

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americentrism

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Funnily enough @davidgro@lemmy.world suspected you of having been displaying US defaultism ;-)

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    • Paddy_NI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Your sentence makes no sense, are you speaking on someone else’s behalf voicing an imagined opinion you think they have?

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      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        @davidgro@lemmy.world pointed out to you that OP might not be an US citizen, so suspected you to be one, ignorant of the fact that other people outside the US exist.

        And you then replying to that with the US defaultism quote is funny.

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  • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Interesting. What country are you in? Whenever SMS comes up on the Internet usual people mention it being a US thing almost exclusively.

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    • Paddy_NI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Please tell me you’re joking…

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      • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well, I suppose I could actually pay attention to your username.

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    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Whenever SMS comes up on the Internet usual people mention it being a US thing almost exclusively. You are sure? Never experienced it that way.
      After all, SMS is originally an European cellular standard and has been huge thing there for decades.

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      • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s usually in the context of there not being a single app alternative (like WhatsApp or that one China uses) which took off before SMS became unlimited here, so SMS is the default if you want to exchange text messages with someone or if a company does.

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