Post to Signals
Write to the stream itself, pick who sees it, and let people react or reply.
Your posts are written in Signals, not on your profile. Tap the prompt at the top of the stream, or the compose button in the bottom bar on a phone once the prompt has scrolled away.
Choose who sees it
- Your orbit: the people you're connected to. The usual choice.
- Public: anyone who can see your profile.
- Only you: a note to yourself, and nobody else sees it.
You can attach a poll instead of (or alongside) the text, up to six options. People vote right on the card.
Reactions and replies
Anyone who can see a post can react with one of ten emoji, or open the thread and reply. A collapsed thread shows its last few comments right on the card, so you can tell what people said without opening anything.
Replies live under the post, so a conversation stays with the thing it's about rather than turning into a separate group chat. They go one level deep, they can carry a photo or a GIF, and you can edit yours. See Comments and reactions.
Your own post
From a post's menu you can mute its thread (you stop hearing about new replies, everyone else carries on) or turn comments off entirely, which leaves what's already there readable and stops anything new landing.
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