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ezst 51 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

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

justsomehnguy 51 days ago [–]

Or you can just show the welcome message from a new contact, just like anyone else does. Adding a 2nd factor here is the reason XMPP suck.

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