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0 pointscan16358p4y ago0 comments

Well, it brought up to here what we have. Even though there are many people complaining, what we currently have, even if fragmented, is a great collection of apps that are free and allow us to send text/images/videos/rich links to anyone using the app on Earth in a split second.

Not saying that it couldn't happen in other setting, but innovation definitely did happen in the current fragmentation of silos.

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whimsicalism4y ago

We have had that for over a decade now

can16358pOP4y ago

There's nothing that I'm aware of that is standard in all (acceptably decent) phones, built into the standard by, say, 3GPP, without need to install an external app, that can send a good quality (so no MMS here) images and videos to any group of people, with verifiable E2EE, with welcome features of things like realtime location sharing (with explicit permission of sender of course), read notifications, online/delivered status, reactions to messages, and starting video calls (3G video features never took off), other "fun" and convenient features like shareable stickers etc.

Almost all of WhatsApp, Telegram, Apple ecosystem, Discord, Slack etc. have almost all of it.

Which public standard that's available on phones do we have that provides these features worldwide?

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