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The story of Darth BlueBubbles the Wise (lemmy.world)
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

In the UK most people use Whatsapp regardless of their platform. That has its own issues but thankfully you never hear people talking about blue text bubbles.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm in the UK too and the gradual shift to WhatsApp has been a relief considering it used to be WhatsApp, Snapchat, messenger, Instagram, iMessage and twitter about ten years ago, not that anyone did all of them.

    It's a shame it's meta but it's so nice that it's not a huge pile of useless features, just a few.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Twitter never took off in my area for some reason but lot of people I knew used Facebook messenger about 10 years ago which was a pain. I'm pretty sure the popularity of Whatsapp is thanks to Vodafone. They had contracts years ago that allowed unlimited use of Whatsapp without affecting your data usage. This lead a lot of people to believe that happens on all contracts. I still can't convince my Grandma that calling through Whatsapp uses both of our data.

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