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.
And here I was waiting for simultaneous phone and tablet sync as well as notifications for Signal. Nope, I can only use one device at a time. I noped out and went with Telegram. Priorities.
Look for Matrix/Element, it’s the Lemmy to Signal/Discord/Teams/Slack’s Reddit. 👍
I’d compare it to Mastodon more. Like Mastodon, it has an actual competent non-profit behind it and is very transparent and open up community engagement with a ton of clients. Lemmy developers are… just doing their own thing I guess. Lemmy needs a rewrite tbh, it’s still a mess.
Maybe. I just assumed people on Lemmy would be familiar with Lemmy when I’m not sure they’d be familiar with Mastodon. But, yeah, maybe they are.
I’ll check it out, thanks. :)
Matrix is neat but incredibly slow, lacks many functions of Discord/Teams/Slack, etc, and lastly is not private at all unless you run your own server and use it only to converse with people on your server.
Matrix supports e2e chats with other users, even over federation.
That’s all well and good but your server collects pretty much all metadata.
I know signal claims they have little/no metadata, but is that a protocol guarantee or are we just trusting them that they aren’t logging anything? I personally have no trust in signal given they are against federation and custom clients.
I mean they have provided court documents from when they have been subpoenaed and they didn’t give any metadata. I’m not sure what more you can ask for.
I can’t get enough of my contacts using signal for stories to be useful
Literally everyone I talk to uses Telegram and not a single one of us uses their Stories feature. It’s fucking useless in a chat app.
Stories are useless everywhere, be good if we just got rid of them
There is no head-scratcher.
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It was one of the top requested features on the Signal forum for a long time. These things aren’t being implemented all over every service for no reason. People want them, even if you don’t .
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It brings more people onto the platform, which is handy if you ever want to use it to actually converse with other people.
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They created the first and only form of private social media in existence.
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stories for messaging apps like WhatsApp/Signal were the most out of place irritating features. no idea why they thought it’d work
You’re not trying to please the customers, you’re trying to please the shareholders.
If every corporation and social media offers the same thing you won’t notice when they are all inevitably bought and own by the same person.
Ah another amazing idea like their “moments” which just ended up being cringe. This is just clips but with an expiration date. It’d make more sense to have them copy TikTok/YouTube shorts format, but with Twitch clips that they already have.
next they will copy tiktok?
