Get off that shitty instance and join lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works or lemmy.dbzer0.com
Andromxda
joined 8 months ago
Yo wtf, these prices are crazy
Yeah that was in 2018. But WhatsApp was already by far the most popular messenger by then.
SMS used to be the standard way of messaging people on a cellphone. Since a European country is about the size of one US state, it's pretty common to have friends, family or other people you have to message in another European country. Many carriers still charge additional fees for sending SMS messages to other EU countries. So Europeans needed some way of messaging people in other countries for free. That's where WhatsApp came in, it's designed for phones and simpler to use than Email. In 2013, WhatsApp was bought by Facebook, which later became Meta. It's basically the same for other countries that rely on WhatsApp, they need to send messages to foreign countries frequently, which can become quite expensive when using SMS. Americans never needed WhatsApp, because they don't have to message people in foreign countries as often as Europeans, and they often have unlimited SMS included in their cell plans.
SMS and iMessage.
This is BS, half of it is pure speculation, the other half consists of conspiracy theories.
Easy answer: Boomers
Why are Rockchip, Allwinner and other Chinese companies allowed to sell their garbage in western countries?
The Redlib frontend still works. In my opinion it also provides a much nicer UI than the official Reddit website or even old.reddit.com. This is the list of public instances: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md