The Signal messenger and protocol.

No, only have family converted to use signal.

I believe stories was a feeble attempt at competing with social media.

I've done it a couple of times, I think I need to actually tell people I'm going to use it first though!

I saw someone suggest here that it's kind of the perfect replacement for what would have been a Facebook status or something similar back in the day: a general "hey, here's something kind of interesting but not for anyone in particular, it doesn't really need a response though".

I used it for shit posting, like documenting my afternoon in a IKEA and my slow descent into agony and despair.

I have a friend that travel a lot and he use them to show us what is happening and not slow down the thousands of conversations/groups my friends made

I disabled it the day the feature was released. It's cringe-worthy social media trash, and Signal can do better. Same with the scam mobile coin stuff.

Yep! Not a ton of people but its catching on

Yes. Pretty much every day. Its pretty much the only form of private social media, unfortunately.

Nope. Tried it once, zero views. I think the feature is there for feature parity with other apps. But the people I was able to convert truly don't gaf. Maybe we are just too sophisticated.

Nope. I disabled it immediately

I haven't used it yet, but I will probably use them for travel updates later. People ask for holiday photos, but I don't want to bother sending them as dms. I totally understand that people disable them though.

I do. Only a few of my contacts look at them, though, and even fewer post things to them.

I don't use it, and I've seen less than a handful in total from my contacts.

But if it did or does make others join Signal then I'm glad that it's there.

Never have

Never touched it.

disabled

Old post but I've just seen it and there are so many nos that I have to add my yes, so:

Yes a lot and some other friends and familie members to it as well. It's a nice little non disruptive way to see how they are doing without the need to get into other social media platforms.

Disabled + the few contacts that agreed to use Signal won't be using it

Nope, don't need crap like that in my messaging app. I'm honestly still pissed they went away from working over to SMS to using their own (regularly failing) servers and then being very actively hostile to any forks and plain reproducable builds. Signal remains the most easy-to-convince-people option, but there's still a lot that looks mighty suspicious (and pointless features is one of those classic ways to hide deliberate backdoors/vulns).