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Beeper Mini Is Back (blog.beeper.com)
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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Why should they be forced to interop? That'll just reduce it to the lowest commend denominator. What impetus would any of them have for investing in making a better system if everyone can use their work?

We have choices. We don't have to use iMessage, or Beeper. We can use other messengers.

Forcing interop means all messengers will function the same... Again at the LCD level.

Plus different messengers have different capabilities, different use-cases.

Frankly I don't even want to use SMS at all, and haven't wanted to for 10 years. I want a messenger that's independent of my mobile device that I can simply sign into just about anywhere. Kind of like instant messengers were in the late 90's (which often used things like XMPP).

Ten+ years ago I was running instant messengers on Android. Pidgin, Trillian, etc, logging in to multiple messengers. That should've been the path forward, but people couldn't be bothered because SMS was free, native, and "good enough" (in their minds).

And yet back then any conversations I had on any device showed up on all devices. With no dependence on my SIM or phone hardware ID.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

>"Interop bad"

>using lemmy