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Signal Introduces Stories
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#42Am I in a bubble and these features are, in fact, widely used on WhatsApp? I'm in groups with a whole lot of other people including a few who keep up with modern social media stuff, use TikTok, use Instagram, et c., and zero of them use the Status feature or Stories or anything but messaging. For us it's just ICQ/text with better media embedding (but still really bad, somehow). Some of us regularly use similar featur…
Can't speak for the world but WhatsApp Statuses (stories) are used by many many people in East Africa. It is basically what keeps me coming back to WhatsApp over Signal so I am quite thrilled to see Signal now have them. Maybe that will shift more people over.
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#43Am I in a bubble and these features are, in fact, widely used on WhatsApp? I'm in groups with a whole lot of other people including a few who keep up with modern social media stuff, use TikTok, use Instagram, et c., and zero of them use the Status feature or Stories or anything but messaging. For us it's just ICQ/text with better media embedding (but still really bad, somehow). Some of us regularly use similar featur…
A lot of people around me in Germany from all ages and bubbles use this feature in WhatsApp as if it were some kind of Instagram. I see multiple status updates every day.
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#44Oh cool, "stories" are here to ruin yet another app. What is this obsession all about?
Not sure why you're downvoted but I'd love to know the answer to this.
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#45I am a happy user of WhatsApp's Status and am actually really looking forward to Signals take!
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#46Anyone know of a fork of signal that disables this keeps the SMS feature?
Not likely to happen. While it's OSS, there's still a central Signal backend, and they don't like clients other than their own to connect to it. Any fork would eventually need to have their own backend, and now you're basically no longer using Signal since you won't be able to communicate with anybody else not using yours.
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#47I like it! Making it more "mainstream" is the way to go even if purists might say that it's feature bloat for their secure messenger. It's similar to how it's good if more people use Tor for all kinds of activities as it doesn't immediately label you as suspicious just because you use Tor or Signal.
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#48When 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?
Perverse incentives to get folks to use signal more. Checking it when you get a message isn't good enough, need to get creators and influencers on the platform to let folks doom scroll. How many followers on Signal do you have?
Is there anyone that actually gets excited when they see a platform has stories, or is adding them?
I feel like it's just out-of-touch product managers who see everyone else doing the stories thing and blindly aping it cause it's the thing to do.
In reality, the only place people seem to use stories is Snapchat, Instagram, and seemingly some people post to Facebook stories but I think it's mostly cause of the toggle in Instagram to cross-post to there.
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#49Am I in a bubble and these features are, in fact, widely used on WhatsApp? I'm in groups with a whole lot of other people including a few who keep up with modern social media stuff, use TikTok, use Instagram, et c., and zero of them use the Status feature or Stories or anything but messaging. For us it's just ICQ/text with better media embedding (but still really bad, somehow). Some of us regularly use similar featur…
A lot of people around me in Germany from all ages and bubbles use this feature in WhatsApp as if it were some kind of Instagram. I see multiple status updates every day.
Wait, what feature is this? Me and all my friends and family use WhatsApp and I've never seen anything like this.
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#50I never asked for this.