Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise?

• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Paddy_NI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • Paddy_NI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I made zero assumption about whether op was in the US or not. I simply responded to @davidgro@lemmy.world US defaultism.

        You ironically just provided another example of US defaultism 🤣

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• davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Please tell me you’re joking…

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    • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • Paddy_NI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yep Northern Ireland is not a US state thankfully 🤪

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, that makes some sense then!
        I remember SMS still being a hot topic in the US from the (for me as an outsider) amusing blue(?) and green(?) text message bubble discussions.

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