2026-04-17 14:24 UTC
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@NovaFuture@lemmy.world 2026-04-17 14:41
Not exactly! With SMS your message goes through your carrier's servers, so it gets stored there until your contact receives it. With PeerBox there's no server at all, your own machine handles everything. So it does need both sides to be online at the same time for the message to go through, but in deferred mode that happens automatically whenever the overlap occurs.
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@moody@lemmings.world 2026-04-17 14:37
SMS has somewhere to go in between the sender and recipient. Where does this go if I send a message then go offline before the recipient comes online? It seems like both parties must be online at the same time for the message to be sent. My understanding is that your message will wait on your device until the recipient is online and then will be sent, so if neither party is ever online at the same time, it won't work.