Twitch has stories now, because all social media has to be the same

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• scytale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • _spiffy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Possibly it was low hanging fruit. Easy to implement, and it gives people a feature pretty much everything else has.

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    • BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So low it’s fermenting on the floor with nobody touching it.

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  • QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • rchive@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Look for Matrix/Element, it’s the Lemmy to Signal/Discord/Teams/Slack’s Reddit. 👍

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    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not even that… They don’t even have desktop registration in the official client, which is just outrageous.

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  • p5f20w18k@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can’t get enough of my contacts using signal for stories to be useful

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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

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    • noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      yeah, I actually like using stories on Signal. I used to post to them much more back when I was 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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• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Still waiting for Excel stories …

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gee, let’s take a look at what John did today in cell AE2672…

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    • Misconduct@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m not proud to admit that I kinda wanna know what John is up to in cell AE2672

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• bappity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  stories for messaging apps like WhatsApp/signal were the most out of place irritating features. no idea why they thought it’d 2ork

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Generally 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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• Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can’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.

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  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not 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.

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    • Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I would argue that short video clips on a video streaming service actually makes a lot of sense…

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    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’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.

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    • Krachsterben@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tons 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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  • Entropywins@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can I just not like something?

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    • Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can do whatever you want my dude, I’m not the thought police

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  • Defaced@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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…

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  • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just 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.

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    • devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For sure, constant instant rewarding mechanisms and not practising delayed rewarding in no way whatsoever will do great.

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• BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’re not trying to please the customers, you’re trying to please the shareholders.

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  • Droid_B612@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or, more accurately, you're not trying to please the product, you're trying to please the shareholders, and the advertisers who are the actual customers.

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• mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Sodis@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, 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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• csolisr@communities.azkware.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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

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  • dym_sh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    one 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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• spudwart@spudwart.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Long live the Fediverse.

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  • kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Inb4 Lemmy and Mastodon introduces stories.

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• switches@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  these features are why i avoid those other sites so seeing it leak into sites i actually use is really irritating. i’m still annoyed with youtube shorts all over my damn subscription feed

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• arin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  next they will copy tiktok?

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