Twitch has stories now, because all social media has to be the same
Twitch has stories now, because all social media has to be the same
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.
152Possibly it was low hanging fruit. Easy to implement, and it gives people a feature pretty much everything else has.
48So low it’s fermenting on the floor with nobody touching it.
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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.
22There 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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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
9yeah, 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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stories for messaging apps like WhatsApp/Signal were the most out of place irritating features. no idea why they thought it'd work
72Generally I agree, on Messenger it's an annoying waste of space that barely anyone uses.
It is nice to have if you can hide it, lets those that use it use it
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You're not trying to please the customers, you're trying to please the shareholders.
41If 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.
39Can't help but feel like most of what's posted here is like the "old man yells at cloud" meme lol. Short form video is huge, people love it, young adults spend a ton of time on it, and most importantly it's profitable.
But I get it, us millenials were the primary demographic on the internet for a long time, it's a weird shift to see things that don't cater to us pop up.
32Not really, twitch is a streaming service. It's weird for it to have stories. It's like if your toaster also was able to have a small one item freezer. It just doesn't make that much sense.
63There's shorts and there's stories. Superficially similar but fundamentally different in how they are consumed.
Makes a lot of sense for Twitch to have shorts, it fits into their core business of streaming. Stories not so much, maybe I'm biased by Instagram and WhatsApp but stories are for personal stuff.
12Tons of creators streaming on YouTube. Also shorts are an easily palatable way to watch highlights or funny moments from a stream, it makes sense
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It's more than just being a certain demographic, I've caught myself numerous times just swiping through YouTube stories without thought. It's a way to gauge interest in topics quickly and frequently to sell advertising. It honestly freaks me out sometimes, how easily it is to just scroll and scroll without even noticing....
12Just like the new "samples" 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 haven't even looked at yet - but can look into, if required.
7For sure, constant instant rewarding mechanisms and not practising delayed rewarding in no way whatsoever will do great.
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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.
28Yeah, but somehow they don't like clips and it's a pain to access them now, if the streamer has not highlighted any.
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I'm surprised that Twitch still doesn't 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
23one can still "stream" a pre-recorded video-file and even make re-runs or their older streams officially, they just want to limit actual data-rehosting, as storage costs for backlogs might exceed any ad-revenue from them
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Long live the Fediverse.
18Inb4 Lemmy and Mastodon introduces stories.
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next they will copy tiktok?
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