• Swedneck
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    6 days ago

    i mean i’m not in the US either, i have never heard of anyone using whatsapp here in sweden. the standard is sms and some people use facebook messenger or apple imessage, both of which have sms fallback which is why anyone uses them at all.

    the idea of the standard being something that has no sms fallback is absolutely absurd to me

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Here in Finland WhatsApp is the default, kids get it on their phone the second they get one. Even my 85yo grandma uses it.

      I haven’t received a single SMS that wasn’t from an automated system in a good decade or so.