• edric@lemm.ee
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    1 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.

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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

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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.

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          1 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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            1 year ago

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

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              1 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.