• noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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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

      • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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        1 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.

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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.