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

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.

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

There is no head-scratcher.

1. 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 .

2. It brings more people onto the platform, which is handy if you ever want to use it to actually converse with other people.

3. They created the first and only form of private social media in existence.

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

Gee, let's take a look at what John did today in cell AE2672...

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

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.

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....

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.

Yeah, but somehow they don't like clips and it's a pain to access them now, if the streamer has not highlighted any.

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

Inb4 Lemmy and Mastodon introduces stories.