In the fediverse, we are all the welcoming committee! If someone you know from elsewhere joins, make sure you interact with them, helping them feel welcome and included.
* Reply to their posts, @mentioning people who might be interested in the topic.
* Boost their best posts to help people find and follow them.
* Subscribe to their feed to get a notification every time they post, so you remember.
* encourage them to post an #introduction, to help fun folks find them.
Most recently, automated collection of support addresses 💬 has been launched. For retrieving the support addresses of a provider, "XEP-0157: Contact Addresses for XMPP Services" is used. Support addresses will be available in version 2 (v2) of the API. The FAQ section explains how these properties can be provided by server admins.
Many providers started adding support addresses so they can be retrieved automatically 💡
#xmpp #providers #chat #onboarding
Automating the Automatable 🤖
During the past year, we worked on automating the process of gathering data about XMPP providers. A suite of tools has been developed since, providing the ability to query properties via XMPP and through the web. 🚀
All of these tools run daily to keep the data up to date. 
Read more about automation in our latest blog post:
providers.xmpp.net/blog/2023-1…
#xmpp #providers #chat #onboarding
