alt Hacker NewsAnd how am I going to find the valid friend requests under the hundreds of spam ones? I used it just like a chat version of public email, for bug reports and such, so I don't know who is going to message me beforehand.
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fluoridation • yesterday at 8:09 PM
Fair enough. I've only ever used XMPP when Google chat used it and at work in the days before Slack.
You can mediate friends requests by having servers generate an invite link, you can generate QR codes your friend can scan on a side channel, ... There are ways