• Otter
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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.