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		rahkiin on Sept 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals It does! With automatic fallback. It is a protocol called SMS

hn_throwaway_99 on Sept 28, 2023 [–]

And it sucks so horribly to the point that it's nearly unusable in modern group chats (or, rather, MMS is the protocol that's used for group chats and that one also sucks horribly).

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