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XMPPRealtime BlocklistProtects XMPP Groups From Spammers, Implemented In Major ServerSoftware ⚡️@takebackourtech | SOURCE I'm proud to share a recent development in XMPP, the development and adoption of a real-time blocklist. Problem: Because XMPP allows anyone to create an acct without personal info, certain bad apples can disturb XMPP groups. When these people get banned, they can simply hop to a different XMPP chatroom - since XMPP is completely decentralized the second server will not know a spammer has joined until its too late. XMPP server owners knew they had a problem, so they formed a working group and built a solution in the form of a real-time block list. Solution: The XMPP real-time blocklist can be adopted by any server and can sync with a shared blocklist co-managed by other XMPP server operators. Now when a spammer is caught in one group, they're caught in all groups using the RTBL. My part in this was simply asking the development team of ejabberd (a popular XMPP server software) to implement the module that would make a real-time blocklist possible for anyone using their software. They accepted the request and it got implemented recently. This functionality was already implemented in most major servers and this was the last one - it's a big deal for public groups everywhere. Today's a good day to try XMPP. Have you joined #TBOT's XMPP room yet? - Register for XMPP here - Join our chatroom: [email protected] ⚡️Follow |🗣Discuss | 📩Newsletter