XMPP ID field

[trymeouteh]

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Is your proposal related to a problem?

There is a Mateix User field for ones profile to allow users to share theur Matrix username. Please add an XMPP field also for users to share their XMPP usernames

Describe the solution you'd like

A XMPP username field

[poVoq]

Having a field for communities to more prominently share related group channels on XMPP (or IRC / Matrix) would be nice too.

[dessalines]

You can just use the sidebar to link anything you want for communities. You could also put your XMPP id in your bio.

We'll probably add some rel-link fields for users, but the matrix id is specifically to show a send secure message button.

[SamWhited]

We could have similar buttons for XMPP that allow opening a chat room in whatever client the user has setup on their desktop or phone, for example. I generally dislike adding specific services or technologies in profiles because you either end up with a proliferation of services, or only a few niche services that the original author uses.

The way mastodon does a list of links and shows them with a verified mark if they go somewhere that has rel="me" (or whatever it is) in a back-link on the page is a nicer way, I think. This method could still detect the scheme (xmpp:, http:, I assume Matrix has a URI as well, etc.) and show specific actions like a button without having a specific technology or company being the only thing a user can select. I'd love to have a link to my blog outside the description somewhere, for example.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

@SamWhited, the Matrix schema is matrix:, in the format of matrix:u/rokejulianlockhart:matrix.org.

[dessalines]

I think this (and any number of links to potentially hundreds of comms services), would be something best to have in your bio.

[poVoq]

Remove Matrix as well then...

But the actual proposal was to make the single field provider/protocol agnostic.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

But the actual proposal was to make the single field provider/protocol agnostic.

@poVoq, #1693 (comment) simply didn't state that. However, if no issue exists for a provider-agnostic (schema-based) profile field, would you make one? If not, specify and I'll do so and link it here.

[poVoq]

These two seem related:

LemmyNet/lemmy-ui#1893

#3431

Please go ahead and make a new issue if you want.

[toastal]

+1

If you want to promote decentralized, open chat (👏), then support inputs for those multiple protocols. Favoritism creates a bias that leads others to believe one is superior & that’s simply not the case for myriad of technical, social, & political reasons. Along with the linked UI bug, this field(s) should be for direct messages broadly, which is not the same kind of hyperlink as a standard hyperlink as it’s often meant to take you out of the browser for a conversation.