Well e2e encryption is never private for the entity contrilling the endpoint. Instagram could push an update which decrypts and uploads your past chat history. Of course they’d only do it for your benefit so you don’t lose any data /s

Since when did Instagram support E2E? I didn’t even know, lol.

Lost Redditor? Welcome to Lemmy ;)

„we do this, because our ancestors did and because it‘s fun/ brings us joy“ is a completely valid reason however :)

Sounds like a good solution. To make the colors less invasive it could only activate once two different users with the same name comment in a single thread.