<![CDATA[Hear me out: what if, instead of maintaining a roster, we just send directed presence to every open chat and tell everyone #XMPP doesn't have a server-side contact list anymore?]]>Hear me out: what if, instead of maintaining a roster, we just send directed presence to every open chat and tell everyone doesn't have a server-side contact list anymore?
Obviously, the server could still infer the exact same information, but that's true for Signal as well, and nobody seems bothered by this either.

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]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/topic/e79932b5-4df1-43b0-91a9-153d462904c9/hear-me-out-what-if-instead-of-maintaining-a-roster-we-just-send-directed-presence-to-every-open-chat-and-tell-everyone-xmpp-doesn-t-have-a-server-side-contact-list-anymoreRSS for NodeMon, 09 Nov 2026 21:33:36 GMTMon, 25 Aug 2025 08:48:59 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Hear me out: what if, instead of maintaining a roster, we just send directed presence to every open chat and tell everyone #XMPP doesn't have a server-side contact list anymore? on Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:27:26 GMT]]>@daniel would this allow in some way for sharing contact lists and bookmarks between different clients, as long as they stay connected for a while at the same time?]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://social.gl-como.it/objects/3e3ce0df-1068-ac3a-8e05-ee9954861860https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://social.gl-como.it/objects/3e3ce0df-1068-ac3a-8e05-ee9954861860Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:27:26 GMT