Matrix address: how to give it? Should it be protected from spam bots?

Fediverse@lemmy.world – 63 points – 1 years ago

Personal websites often give an email address for contact, as a mailto:blah@blah.blah link. And the address is often obfuscated in a variety of ways to avoid its harvesting by spam bots.

If one wants to give one's Matrix address in a website, what's the correct way of writing it as link? is it recognized as any kind of MIME (like mailto:)?

And is Matrix-address spamming something possible and common? In this case, how should one obfuscate a Matrix address given in a website?

Lots of questions from a noob :) Thank you for your explanations!

Edit for others with the same question: as per @QuazarOmega@lemmy.world's explanation in the comments, the Matrix address can be given as the link

https://matrix.to/#/@[yourusername]:[your.server]

As far as I'm aware you give an HTTPS link with matrix.to, I wasn't able to find a method like mailto, tel etc.
Then you can use all the usual methods of obfuscation on that URL

Thank you! I checked it. From what I understand I should use a link like https://matrix.to/#/@[user]:[server.zzz]. Then from there they are redirected to use their own Matrix app, if they have one.

Yep, that's right!

Thank you for the great help, I hope it'll be useful to others too :)

Good question, hadn't thought about it. I guess I'd probably just send it encoded in base64 and tell them to decode it, like people do with torrent hashes. Won't stop other people from decoding but it should stop the bots, to stop other people I'd use PGP.

Spam is definitely possible, I got some once, but I think they were sniping a room's list of members because I haven't given it out like that online, so it had to be something like that.

Thank you for the info! As I'm completely new to Matrix I was indeed wondering. Probably the spam problem will increase as it becomes more popular....