Share dance videos like nobodys watching
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Signal is now doing stories.
And it might be the best thing to happen to you and your friends in quite a while.
There are two kinds of social networks.
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Signal’s new Stories feature brings the former’s advantages to the latter’s more private space.
The thing is, stories can be pretty great.
They let you gather images and/or video clips and arrange them into a mini slideshow.
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Signal developer and bloggerNina-Signal puts it beston the Signal Blog.
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If you’re old enough, you’re free to think of stories as photo slideshows.
Viewers, in this case, appears to mean anyone in your contact list who is also on Signal.
They exist to make it discover, analyze, and exploit your social graph.
This lets you and your friends share these little self-contained slideshows completely in private.
But there’s one downside.
Signal depends on donations for funding.
On the one hand, it would be ideal if it was funded by paid users.
On the other hand, good luck getting anybody to pay for a social or messaging service.
And now, it’s also the best way to create real, intimate social networks with actual friends.
