• edric
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    1521 year ago

    Same with Signal. That was a headscratcher. Of all the features they could add to possibly compete better with Telegram and WhatsApp, they really did Stories first.

    • @[email protected]
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      501 year ago

      Possibly it was low hanging fruit. Easy to implement, and it gives people a feature pretty much everything else has.

      • @BroBot9000
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        641 year ago

        So low it’s fermenting on the floor with nobody touching it.

    • @QuandaleDingle
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      221 year ago

      And here I was waiting for simultaneous phone and tablet sync as well as notifications for Signal. Nope, I can only use one device at a time. I noped out and went with Telegram. Priorities.

        • 👁️👄👁️
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          61 year ago

          I’d compare it to Mastodon more. Like Mastodon, it has an actual competent non-profit behind it and is very transparent and open up community engagement with a ton of clients. Lemmy developers are… just doing their own thing I guess. Lemmy needs a rewrite tbh, it’s still a mess.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Maybe. I just assumed people on Lemmy would be familiar with Lemmy when I’m not sure they’d be familiar with Mastodon. But, yeah, maybe they are.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        Not even that… They don’t even have desktop registration in the official client, which is just outrageous.

    • Entropy
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      151 year ago

      I can’t get enough of my contacts using signal for stories to be useful

      • Clegko
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        Literally everyone I talk to uses Telegram and not a single one of us uses their Stories feature. It’s fucking useless in a chat app.

        • Entropy
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          11 year ago

          Stories are useless everywhere, be good if we just got rid of them

    • Otter
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      I actually liked having it, even though I don’t use it much. Makes it easier to get other people to switch if this is a feature they were using already. It now pretty much does everything Snapchat does, only better

      Snapchat was a privacy/security/performance nightmare

      • @[email protected]
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        yeah, I actually like using stories on Signal. I used to post to them much more back when I was still using Snapchat, but it’s still a fun way of sharing some throwaway, unimportant photos with friends.

        and besides, if you don’t want them, Signal lets you disable them and they disappear from the UI completely.

        • @[email protected]
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          201 year ago

          They killed sms for bullshit reasons but they gave us stories

          Stories, on an app for secure communication. All the sudden all my family that I set up with it who know nothing about encryption stopped using it because they don’t want two texting apps. It’s border on useless for me now because I only know like 2 people who still have it

          • 👁️👄👁️
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            91 year ago

            Yeah Signal is completely irrelevant to me now after they dropped SMS integration. The centralized servers and closed source servers don’t help either. Matrix/Element is much closer to what I hoped Signal would become. Matrix has its own issues, but I at least agree more with their direction.

          • @[email protected]
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            01 year ago

            encrypted stories on an app for secure communication make more sense than unencrypted SMS.

            • Liz
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              21 year ago

              Except that the whole selling point was you could replace your SMS app so you got secure communication without having yet another app. I dropped it when they dropped SMS.