Jungle George š“Twitch has stories now, because all social media has to be the same
edricSame 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.
_spiffyPossibly it was low hanging fruit. Easy to implement, and it gives people a feature pretty much everything else has.
OtterI actually liked having it, even though I donāt 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
yeah, I actually like using stories on Signal. I used to post to them much more back when I was using Snapchat, but itās still a fun way of sharing some throwaway, unimportant photos with friends.
and besides, if you donāt want them, Signal lets you disable them and they disappear from the UI completely.
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 donāt want two texting apps. Itās border on useless for me now because I only know like 2 people who still have it
encrypted stories on an app for secure communication make more sense than unencrypted SMS.
LizExcept 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.
Yeah Signal is completely irrelevant to me now after they dropped SMS integration. The centralized servers and closed source servers donāt 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.
EntropyI canāt get enough of my contacts using signal for stories to be useful
There is no head-scratcher.
It was one of the top requested features on the Signal forum for a long time. These things arenāt being implemented all over every service for no reason. People want them, even if you donāt .
It brings more people onto the platform, which is handy if you ever want to use it to actually converse with other people.
They created the first and only form of private social media in existence.
next they will copy tiktok?
switchesthese features are why i avoid those other sites so seeing it leak into sites i actually use is really irritating. iām still annoyed with youtube shorts all over my damn subscription feed
Canāt help but feel like most of whatās posted here is like the āold man yells at cloudā meme lol. Short form video is huge, people love it, young adults spend a ton of time on it, and most importantly itās profitable.
But I get it, us millenials were the primary demographic on the internet for a long time, itās a weird shift to see things that donāt cater to us pop up.
EntropywinsCan I just not like something?
You can do whatever you want my dude, Iām not the thought police
Thatās exactly what the thought police would say.
Shit, covers blown!
kamenladyJust like the new āsamplesā tab in YouTube music. A whole new tab, just to show 10 sec versions of music clips.
It seems that in a few generations, the average attention span will consist of milliseconds.
Maybe this generation has already evolved in a way that their brains are able to process the amount of information we are confronted with daily.
This could be our next step in evolution: our brains learn to handle information unconsciously, they grow even bigger over generations, archiving tons of data, we havenāt even looked at yet - but can look into, if required.
Long live the Fediverse.
kratoz29Inb4 Lemmy and Mastodon introduces stories.
BroBot9000If every corporation and social media offers the same thing you wonāt notice when they are all inevitably bought and own by the same person.
Still waiting for Excel stories ā¦
Gee, letās take a look at what John did today in cell AE2672ā¦
Iām not proud to admit that I kinda wanna know what John is up to in cell AE2672
Tough, John doesnāt even know what heās up to in cell AE2672
That checks out actuallyā¦ Iām satisfied with that answer lol
ShaggySnacksWHAT DO YOU MEAN THE FORMULA DOESNāT WORK!?
John smashes keyboard
MagnorPorn. Itās always porn.
Ah another amazing idea like their āmomentsā which just ended up being cringe. This is just clips but with an expiration date. Itād make more sense to have them copy TikTok/YouTube shorts format, but with Twitch clips that they already have.
Yeah, but somehow they donāt like clips and itās a pain to access them now, if the streamer has not highlighted any.
Iām surprised that Twitch still doesnāt allow users to upload pre-made videos besides of channel intros. Amazon has the technical infrastructure to actually compete with YouTube on its own turf, and they decide to just limit themselves for no particular reason