Does anyone find the new label feature of Signal odd?
from cheese_greater@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 20 Mar 05:43
https://lemmy.world/post/44496637

The blog post on it seems a bit off, like its being compelled to help identify group ringleaders and the roles of chat participants. I dont know but it just struck me as a strange development, they definitely want you to update…

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wesker@lemmy.sdf.org on 20 Mar 05:57 next collapse

Mommy Meredith would never hurt me.

AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social on 20 Mar 06:54 collapse

Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

If there’s a group chat with like 20 people working on a project in a company, why shouldn’t the guy in charge of managing that project be easily identifiable?

If there’s a public channel dedicated to posting alerts for people, but multiple people can post alerts, why not identify who has what role so people know who to contact if they have questions?

If you’re in a group chat with friends, why not have silly labels for each other? Discord’s Roles get used for that all the time in small friend group servers.

This isn’t really much more odd or encouraging user identification than the ability for people to set a username being done during account setup.