Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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maybe sending dms across the fediverse (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

SMS was never intended to be available to end users. It was built as a side channel to help field techs with diagnostics. When consumer handsets started to add features, it was co-opted to provide what we know it as today.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

That explains why way back when I tried to read the GSM (1.x) specification out of curiosity, it turned out SMS were going via a "control channel".

Always wondered why the data for those was going via a control channel rather than some kind of data channel.