Profile Card and Shared Connections

That works great if you know their name, but not the other way around. In my case, I created an account, my friend didn't have one yet, and I wanted to make sure they had a reason to use the it right off the bat (ie add me asap). An invite link that adds the sender as a friend right away would be cool too

If you don't know your own username you can tap on your profile pic and it brings up your bio which has your name#--- in it.

It's just a handy thing to have, Stoat has it so I thought maybe Fluxer could add something like it too. What if they're not on Fluxer or what if I don't know their username, they could just send me their username but if they had to send it to many people having a profile card could be handy so people can scan the QR code to add them perhaps. It's mainly for convenience, not everyone will use it but it will be a nice feature to have if possible.

Problem with qr codes is people can use them for nefarious purposes. At least with a link you can hover on it etc and can check properly if its safe or if it's leading somewhere dodgy.

The only problem I can think of is people making a fake embed of a profile card with qr codes on them with redirect links or smth.

I think I half-understand what you mean. Could you explain with more context please.

Long-story-short, we should allow users to treat their Fluxer profiles as an entry point to the app, not just as an ID that other users might need to search first. So if, let's say, I am a random guy on the internet, and I want other people to reach out to me on Fluxer, I should be able to share a URL directly to my profile, from where people can add me as friends / send DMs, instead of sharing a URL to a community, where others will have to search me in the members list (if they even have access), or worse I have to share just a username#discriminator and tell people to open Fluxer and search for my account themselves (do they have Fluxer? Have they used the search feature before?). If we have a dedicated profile page, I think it would be easier for others to reach out / find us (the actual user), and not us (a simple member of a community). And as I said in the initial message as well, having a dedicated profile page will open other possibilities in the future (like verifying your Fluxer account on the social media sites, the same way you verify your bluesky link on your Fluxer profile now), or feature communities that we like/own on our pages.

Wouldn't that make it really easy for people to spam accounts that aren't set to a private mode or smth though?

Don't people have to be friends before being able to DM each other outside of groups? I think I personally would be willing to have the risk of spam in exchange for the real solution of having my friends on the platform

The risk of spam is very small, especially considering that all social media apps already do this. Not having a profile page is imo an oversight, considering that a big part of the userbase is now treating a chat app as a full social app. And like with all aspects on the app, you could add permissions on:

• How can view your profile page (public, mutual community members, friends, none)
• How can view certain parts of the profile page
• How can DM you (this already exists)

If you already have your username posted on the internet, spam bots can already take that and search your username, the same way normal person can. I would even argue that is easier for a bot to do it, than a person. But they don't, because, especially on Fluxer / Discord, is just a lot easier to simply join a community, scrape all users / all users typing in chats (when the member list is not available), and send them spam that way.

Pretty sure discord by default has DMs open to anyone sending you messages unless you change a server you are in to be DMs off or you disable DMs entirely. There's no only accept DMs from friends option. Best case scenario is you see a button with any amount of dm requests you can click on, and if you ignore them you see the app indicator with the number of DMs. Not really a big deal but a social page link anyone can view maybe should get like an only view page if you have a 2FA enabled account? If discord had this idea implemented, probably like 70% of people who use discord would be flooded with spam or would be quickly either deleting the app or googling how to prevent it happening. Of course you can disable DMs entirely or per server but if you disabled every server and had DMs open and this profile card was on discord you'd be forced to disable DMs excluding people on your friends list ig.

Reason is say 2FA enabled would be to reduce the number of hacked accounts botting a profile page. Also would encourage people to use 2FA, which most people don't bother I think.