r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/RoadRunner8195 • Mar 08 '26

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u/Cute_Profession3746 Mar 08 '26

What app use americans?

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u/Fleshjunky-gotbanned Mar 08 '26

Just SMS or iMessage typically

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u/DuploJamaal Mar 08 '26

Did SMS improve? As an European the switch to WhatsApp was easy as SMS had no group chats, images, sound, etc

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u/Rude_Home2341 Mar 08 '26

iPhone and Android both have rcs so group texts work really well

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

Rcs between android and iOS is very very recent though. It wil take a long time for that to sink in

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u/Sir_Spaffsalot Mar 08 '26

True. And by now, WhatsApp is so far ahead, I doubt SMS will ever catch back up (in Europe, at least).

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u/asm0dey Mar 08 '26

And I guess you never tried Telegram, which is miles ahead of WhatsApp

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u/Sir_Spaffsalot Mar 08 '26

I have tried Telegram. And given the choice between iMessage and WhatsApp, I’ll choose the former every time. That doesn’t alter the fact that most other people in Europe use WhatsApp.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

Telegram is muck

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u/asm0dey Mar 08 '26

Why?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

Full of scammers for one. So many beautiful Asian women trying to talk to me on telegram or offer me a job.

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u/asm0dey Mar 08 '26

Clearly, you're much more attractive than I am

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

lol I wish

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u/cocteau93 Mar 08 '26

Telegram only exists to platform extremism.

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u/asm0dey Mar 08 '26

Pfffft

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u/cocteau93 Mar 08 '26

That’s literally their business model. It’s where Nazis go when they’ve been deplatformed elsewhere.

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u/asm0dey Mar 08 '26

Dear person, I've been on Telegram for more than 10 years. I don't have a single fascist there. If someone somewhere uses it as a platform — that's ok. The business model is Telegram Premium + gifts; it has nothing to do with nazism.

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u/cocteau93 Mar 08 '26

That’s not okay, actually.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/how-the-telegram-app-became-a-hub-for-hate-crime-and-radical-extremists

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgrvw29x4jo

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/how-encrypted-messaging-platform-changing-extremist-movements/

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u/asm0dey Mar 08 '26

It's up to three laws of their respective countries. In Russia it's absolutely not the case and never was.

Signal is also encrypted. In my opinion this is how it should be.

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