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[–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

I don't know for sure but my guess is that a lot of US users thought you were wrong because they don't know that SMS / MMS is essentially dead in the EU. It's still the primary text based communication method in the US.

MMS supports all the things you mentioned (albeit in a shittier way) except encryption. RCS adds a new layer that is more like Signal in that it supports encryption and emojis and a few other things but it is controlled by Google and there are no open source alternatives currently.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago

    Does MMS support all that? From my brief research it basically just sends an SMS with a link to the media to be downloaded by your WAP browser, so while a client could implement group chats etc I'm not aware that it's actually built in. Not that I can check, my network doesn't even seem to support MMS anymore!

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