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Re: Signal Introduces Stories

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Post by theCrowing »

uoaei wrote: post #52
NdMAND wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So did Moxie leave because Signal got overtaken by Feds? No, he worked on Signal for so long that he probably just wanted to take a break to work on other passions too - he's still on the Signal Foundation board ( https://signalfoundation.org/ ) > Why is a secure messenger adopting the appearance of social media? I'd argue that Stories (or equivalent) is nowadays a standard feature in many messengers. To more direc…

Let's not conflate "normalized" with "standard". "Standard" implies a lot, and definitely there is nothing about "enabling two-way communication between willing participants" that requires "make available a video on the screens of my contacts in a non-directed way" to be part of the offering. Signal is not social media . That is not its intention, nor its purpose, nor even its design. It is a messaging service. We al…

I guess its up to uoaei to define companies instead of themselves. They have a mission statement and othing more and that mission could be achieved as a social media company.

Re: Signal Introduces Stories

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Post by justupvoting »

candiddevmike wrote: post #24
endorphine wrote: post #10

When 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?

Well that'll do for my dose of weltschmerz today, thanks.

Re: Signal Introduces Stories

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Post by barbazoo »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #21
dewey wrote: post #12

I 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.

Making people juggle a different app for SMS is the opposite of being mainstream friendly.

Do Telegram, Whatsapp, FB Messenger, etc support SMS?

Re: Signal Introduces Stories

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Post by n8ta »

Removed SMS support and then added stories. Worried about signal's recent direction.

Being able to interact with my remaining non-signal contacts was huge. Really going to miss it. In contrast they are now adding a feature I do not care about at all.

Re: Signal Introduces Stories

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Post by barbazoo »

fooqux wrote: post #46
jerry1979 wrote: post #39

Anyone 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.

Federated Signal servers!!!

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Post by nimbius »

hadlock wrote: post #55
skyyler wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you rather live in a world where Signal is laser focused on secure messaging to the point where no one uses it? Telegram is growing rapidly because it's adopting social media paradigms. I use both, and I wish I only used Signal.

About once a week I get a notification that random person X I haven't talked to in a decade is now on signal. About two months ago the super at my old apartment building got on signal and I got a notification. My late coworker's phone number finally got recycled and the new person using it is on signal too. They appear to be reaching critical mass. Still really mad about them dropping SMS support. I'll be deleting it…

same. unless Signal has public metrics to suggest its reached a real critical mass, the lack of basic SMS functionality kills the app for me.

Re: Signal Introduces Stories

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Post by barbazoo »

jellicle wrote: post #30

Signal has already committed suicide by removing its most important feature, "compatibility with other messaging apps", from its list of supported features. It's a dead app walking at this point, though it will probably take a few years to wind down and die.

Same applies to every other messaging app that's not federated which is almost all of them.
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