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Stories/Status like WhatsApp Status/Instagram Story
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
With the recent WhatsApp privacy policy update, many in my circle is looking for alternatives. Some saying Signal, but Matrix seems to be the best long-term solution mainly because of federation. One thing lacking from WhatsApp in Matrix clients is the status/stories feature. My feature request is a WhatsApp like status or Instagram like story, it'd be great if there's something like that on Element. Disappearing stories after 24 hours.
I like to share content within my circle-of-contacts and to start or engage in conversation with that topic.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
Exactly like how many social platforms have implemented it. But would this need change in Matrix synapse server ? I don't know. Is there any Matrix clients that support this though ? I searched and from this [page](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/blob/92494bf12c58bade0f06ca755b8e0adfe7cd34ef/gatsby/content/blog/2020/10/2020-10-30-twim.mdx), there's `Fluffychat 0.21.1 is released! Stories feature removed`. But I couldn't find any more info on what FluffyChat's stories were like.
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
A broadcast message to everyone, but that screams right into everyone's inbox. A status/story gives contacts option to whether open, see it, respond or ignore.
**Additional context**
I guess most people are familiar with how stories work. Sorry if this has been asked here before, but I didn't find anything on my search.
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