• ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You’ve said in your edit. They use a different colour.

    They do this because it’s important for the user to know.

    SMS isn’t encrypted. It also costs a lot to send images via SMS/MMS. The user needs to know, they are using a different chat mechanism.