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Imagine a world where your ISP also separately provided an IRC messaging service. Why would you ever use that over actual IRC?

This is how I feel about SMS, and phone numbers too for that matter. They're still around for historical reasons, but if we started anew, I can't imagine we would build out that infrastructure separately from the greater internet, and if we would have, I can't think of a reason why.



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