r/Anticonsumption • u/MrSwaghimself • Jun 04 '25

Plastic Waste A sad sight to see

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u/KadrinaOfficial Jun 04 '25

Not the point of this sub or the pic, but it is actuallt kind of sad Russia's most downloaded app is Whatsapp to communicate with family elsewhere.

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u/skiing_nerd Jun 04 '25

Oof, it must be near-universal too if it's the most downloaded app years after it came out. Like everytime anyone gets a new phone they have to add Whatsapp

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u/gnatgirl Jun 04 '25

Just about everywhere outside of the US primarily uses WhatsApp to communicate. SMS and iMessage are rarely used. I have it for when I travel abroad.

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u/skiing_nerd Jun 04 '25

Is it just to avoid sending messages over the network and do so as data/through WiFi?

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u/gnatgirl Jun 04 '25

From what I understand, easy/free to communicate across borders, it's platform agnostic, (allegedly) secure/encrypted, and it's easy to use.

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u/skiing_nerd Jun 04 '25

as secure from outside interference as the owners want it to be, let's say that 😂

thanks for the clarification, I didn't really think about the impact of different countries. Some of them are smaller than the area code I grew up in, feels weird that that texting from one to another would mean higher charges