Signal Introduces Stories
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Signal Introduces Stories
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#2I don't like this: it seems like Signal wants to morph into a social network rather than a secure messaging platform. I predict the next major features will be unencrypted public groups and API messaging access like Telegram has.
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#3I love how Signal (and WhatsApp adopting Signal's protocol) made privacy easy for the general public and technically inclined alike. Privacy will never be the default until it's made easy.
I'm guessing some folks won't like use feature because it's too "social media-y" (myself likely included) but as they say in the post:
- You can turn the feature off and you won't see other people's stories
- You can choose the audience and the max you can share it with is with Signal users in your contacts list
Thank you Signal team for giving the general public what they want and making it private.
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#4Finally!
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#5I don't like this: it seems like Signal wants to morph into a social network rather than a secure messaging platform. I predict the next major features will be unencrypted public groups and API messaging access like Telegram has.
I just want to share some stories with friends in my contact list. On Signal you don’t have “followers”, just people you are in contact with. This is an unobtrusive way to for example share something interesting, or some event happening near you and so on.
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#6I don't like stories but at least there is a way to opt-out.
Many people do like them and expected them so it's understandable move
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#7I don't like this: it seems like Signal wants to morph into a social network rather than a secure messaging platform. I predict the next major features will be unencrypted public groups and API messaging access like Telegram has.
I too am not a fan of such a move. However, their goal is to increase usage rates among the mainstream audience hence why such a feature is being introducing, just like stickers back in Dec 2019.
Though I'm not sure how many will actually use Stories. WhatsApp has something similar as well but I have never seen anyone among my contacts use it
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#8Don't really care for this but more feature parity with WhatsApp or SnapChat could hopefully attract more people and make it somewhat mainstream. Personally, I know a lot of people that use these messengers just to look at or post stories.
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#9Personally I'd rather avoid the feature bloat. I also think it just waters-down the "secure" image they are clearly going for. I mean, broadcasting images to your contact list isn't exactly what I think of when I think "private messaging".
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#10When I first opened the app and saw a "Stories" tab, I thought "oh no... not here too, ffs...". Then I immediately went to the settings and was mildly relieved (but perhaps I'm naive) to see that I could opt-out.
Now I dread the day when they might decide to make it so that you won't be able to opt-out. Why can't we have nice things?