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Not sure how many people subscribe to anything on Lemmy, but let's give it a try

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[–] DrCake@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I’ve only ever heard that from Americans. I’m surprised it’s not a thing here in the UK seen as we love copying the worst from the yanks, but on this no one cares.

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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

That one is an easy explanation. Many Europeans switched to alternative messaging apps like Whatsapp instead of using SMS text years ago, well before iMessage or RCS came in to make the built in messaging capability better.

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