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		pmlnr on Sept 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Signal is experiencing technical difficulties SMS. It's on every phone. Beyond that, there are free XMPP servers, and you can even run you own. Clients like Conversations, blabber.im are all wonderful. I've been using it with friends and my wife for years without issues, albeit I have my own server.

Kelteseth on Sept 27, 2021 | [–]

SMS is awful for everything more than just plain text, and costs money. Have you ever tried to send an image or a short video via SMS?

pmlnr on Sept 27, 2021 | | [–]

Why would I? The question was: for casual messaging.

mmwelt on Sept 27, 2021 | [–]

I, too, thouht that, until I realised that the iOS clients are terrible in comparison with Android. :-(

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