Do you use Signal Stories?

Does anyone even use this? Or does anyone here have friends who regularly post on signal Stories?

Personally I have never seen anyone use it.

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SecurityPro@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 174d (1 reply)

No, only have family converted to use signal.

I believe stories was a feeble attempt at competing with social media.

TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 3 pts · 174d

IIRC it was a community ask, like there were a lot of person spamming poll to have it on the Signal site. They did it because they’re democratically cool like that but I’m pretty sure that Signal core engineers felt it was bullshit

smeg@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 174d
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TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 5 pts · 174d

I used it for shit posting, like documenting my afternoon in a IKEA and my slow descent into agony and despair.

I have a friend that travel a lot and he use them to show us what is happening and not slow down the thousands of conversations/groups my friends made

plz1@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 172d (1 reply)

I disabled it the day the feature was released. It's cringe-worthy social media trash, and Signal can do better. Same with the scam mobile coin stuff.

greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 172d

Same. Forgot it even existed until I read the title of this post.

LLMhater1312@piefed.social · 4 pts · 173d

Yep! Not a ton of people but its catching on

sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 174d

Nope. I disabled it immediately

dEVbiKub@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 173d

I don't use it, and I've seen less than a handful in total from my contacts.

But if it did or does make others join Signal then I'm glad that it's there.

FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 3 pts · 174d

Nope. Tried it once, zero views. I think the feature is there for feature parity with other apps. But the people I was able to convert truly don't gaf. Maybe we are just too sophisticated.

artyom@piefed.social · 3 pts · 174d

Yes. Pretty much every day. Its pretty much the only form of private social media, unfortunately.

gray@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 173d

I haven't used it yet, but I will probably use them for travel updates later. People ask for holiday photos, but I don't want to bother sending them as dms. I totally understand that people disable them though.

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 2 pts · 173d

I do. Only a few of my contacts look at them, though, and even fewer post things to them.

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 172d

Never have

lemmywinksthegerbilking@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 172d

disabled

ardorhb@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 77d

Old post but I've just seen it and there are so many nos that I have to add my yes, so:

Yes a lot and some other friends and familie members to it as well. It's a nice little non disruptive way to see how they are doing without the need to get into other social media platforms.

yumyumsmuncher@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 173d

Disabled + the few contacts that agreed to use Signal won't be using it

LordCrom@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 172d

Never touched it.

Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 173d

Nope, don't need crap like that in my messaging app. I'm honestly still pissed they went away from working over to SMS to using their own (regularly failing) servers and then being very actively hostile to any forks and plain reproducable builds. Signal remains the most easy-to-convince-people option, but there's still a lot that looks mighty suspicious (and pointless features is one of those classic ways to hide deliberate backdoors/vulns).