You Need to Use Signal's Nickname Feature
submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/ForgottenFlux
Encryption can’t protect you from adding the wrong person to a group chat. But there is also a setting to make sure you don’t.
You can add your own nickname to a Signal contact by clicking on the person’s profile picture in a chat with them then clicking “Nickname.” Signal says “Nicknames & notes are stored with Signal and end-to-end encrypted. They are only visible to you.” So, you can add a nickname to a Jason saying “co-founder,” or maybe “national security adviser,” and no one else is going to see it. Just you. When you’re trying to make a group chat, perhaps.
Signal could improve its user interface around groups and people with duplicate display names.
https://www.404media.co/you-need-to-use-signals-nickname-feature/
https://lemmy.world/post/27420208
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