Just tried to send a friend a story about Parkinson’s from lemmy.world and every single time TMobile strips the link from my SMS. They let tumblr.com though.
I just looked up if they’re actively censoring other sites and, yes. They are. They claim they’re only doing this to obscure domains (.xyz and so on) but I just watched a YouTuber demonstrate .com censorship too. So it seems it’s less arbitrary than they claim.
https://community.t-mobile.com/accounts-services-4/why-is-t-mobile-censoring-our-sms-40519
https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/rskfmx/video_evidence_of_tmobiles_sms_blocking_the_more/
The conservatives are crying about it like it’s just them getting censored but it seems it’s beyond party lines if I can’t share an article about Parkinson’s research.
Wish I could get my friends to all use Signal as well. It’s a solid comm app.
MANY years ago, back when it was Txt Secure I strongarmed everybody I knew into it, was easier then because it visually looked way better than the messenging apps of the time, now its a lot harder, plus signal being g assholes and dumping SMS, while I dont like it, running two apps is bullshit. Now for my non Signal contacts at least Google messenger has RCS so I’ve actually picked up a lot of encrypted people by chance, sadly of course…Google. I still have my concerns whether they have keys or not, but either way RCS is better than SMS.