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I mean... yeah. A real telco. I figure it has to be one of a few things:
a) The profit margins baked into existing SMS services are razor-thin and there's no room for a startup to undercut that (unlikely);
b) The monopoly of the existing telcos is thorough enough that they can shut out newcomers;
c) The initial costs of any potential newcomers are great enough that nobody can secure funding;
d) Nobody both wealthy and moral enough has had this idea yet

Right, the reason why SMS is used was explained in the excerpt, I'm not asking about that. I guess what I'm curious about is how badly the telecom firms they're purchasing SMS services from are price gouging, and if they are, why there hasn't been a startup in this space

Now I want to know more about that $6 million annually spent on SMS messages... That seems like a ridiculously unnecessary cost, wonder if some startup can wedge into the market and undercut the competition.

@palordrolap Oh hey, thanks for the detailed response! I actually did some exploration and learning since I made the OP, so I can bring some info to this discussion as well in case the post floats by more people!

TL;DR: To create a new post anywhere in the Fediverse, you have to have an account on the host where you want to create it.

Thankfully, this isn't the case. I think Kbin has (or had? haven't tried lately) some UI issues that prevented you from being able to properly find federated communities to submit a post to them. I made an alt account on fedia.io (linked in my profile) and I have been able to post threads on communities in other instances from there.

As far as I know, you are correct about the potential for one-way defederation causing visibility issues in the way you describe. Last I checked that was not really an intended use case for the functionality, i.e. it should normally be a mutual process, but I think that may be an area where the platforms are still experiencing growing pains.

What would be nice is if it was possible to log in to one Federation site with credentials for another, or have some non-specific login details that are shared across multiple, but I suspect that's a logistical nightmare waiting to happen.

Agreed, both that it would be nice and that it will probably never happen. :P I don't claim to know any more technical details than those broad strokes.

Methinks your username is a little too relevant right now :p

Yeah it's the front end of the week and Saturday is the rear end

The contempt and elitism coming off this post is so thick it could be cut with a knife. I sincerely hope this is just you in a bad mood and not routinely how you respond to people asking innocent questions.

Doesn't give me any LLM vibes at all tbh. It's a terse article that's mostly quotes, and the parts where the author is paraphrasing to add summarized information without using quotations aren't repeating things stated elsewhere in the quotes.

Also the article seems to be a loosely rewritten transcript of the video spot at the top left of the page, so that kind of explains the low effort and lack of a personal credit. Probably an intern

That's an unorthodox side dish to say the least, but I suppose beggars can't be choosers.

I can't believe that all this time I could have been getting my lunch for free at wikipedia.org

I have already seen this horrible headline posted (and deleted) from THIS community earlier today.