Comment on XMPP servers / cokmunities?

• airikr@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  No bots in XMPP, please.

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  • BackYardIncendiary@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sadly, there’s already a lot of automated spam. It’s best to keep your address private.

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    • airikr@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If that is true, I haven’t noticed anything yet.

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      • BackYardIncendiary@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I run a server for a small group. I think I was targeted because my email address was posted on the web.

        I’m not sure how common of a problem it is, but once the spam starts the quantity of messages and the number of different senders is extraordinary.

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• poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What do you mean with bots in this context?

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  • ZebraGoose@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I have seen telegram and Whatsapp bots that vänt control various selfhosted apps or just report from them. I just wondered if that was a thing on xmpp too.

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    • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The reverse, i.e. getting outage notifications and so on via xmpp is quite common.

      I can’t really think of any usecase to control self-hosted apps from a messenger, but sure, technically you could write such a bot quite easily.

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      • ZebraGoose@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ah okay, notifications would be nice.

        I was thinking about n8n integrations for example

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