XSF Discussion - 2021-03-06

for better anonymity/privacy purposes, would it be possible to add MUC-specific avatars?

MUC admins would be able to see the real avatar just like they can see the real JID

normal participants/members wouldn't be able to do so

in effect, this allows a person to assume a different identity to prevent someone from stalking/tracking them across multiple public MUCs

Almost anything is possible if someone writes the spec and the code

I guess a simple server module could decide to respond to different mucs with a different avatar

BASSGOD: a muc service faking the vcards and avatars instead of proxying them is certainly a possibility

BASSGOD, in ejabberd you can already disable iq routing in mucs

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emus: excellent work once again!

Thank you 😊️

lovetox: what is iq routing and where would i learn more about it?

mathieui: would this MUC service be part of the XMPP standards or what?

i am not really a programmer so i doubt i could write the code for this kind of stuff

iq, for info-query, one of the 3 building blocks of xmpp. works weirdly in MUC, if it's even specified

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html#bizrules-iq

interesting, reading right now

BASSGOD, you dont need to spec or code anything, use a ejabberd server, disable iq routing in mucs

and you have the privacy you want

this obviously means, no avatars for anyone

is it possible to disable iq routing for specific MUCs?

yes, its in the specific muc config dialog

every room admin can do it

Hi, is there anyone else (especially if there are any outlook users) that experience that the newsletter ends up in spam?

No outlook user, didn't go to spam.

thanks