(#o6ifc2q) There are lots of quality of life improvements handling phone this way. For instance, I have a phone number I've had for 20-odd years at this point. I receive something like 3-5 unsolicited calls per day and a few unsolicited SMS a week at that number. It must be in every spammer/scammer database on Earth at this point. However, since I've had this number so long and given it to so many people, I want to keep it. Many XMPP clients give you pretty good control over blocking; you also have the ability, if you want to write some code, to block arbitrary *patterns* of phone numbers. And since it's all handled in one app, you can block calls and SMS/MMS messages from a phone number in one place. All of that has meant an improvement in my life--I can keep this old number, and even though spam gets through sometimes I have a much easier way to deal with it than text clients and dialers on Android give you.

(#o6ifc2q) @abucci Interesting... 🤔

(#o6ifc2q) @prologic I believed they're limited to the US and Canada right now but iirc they intend to eventually expand globally. Definitely to Europe.