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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 @[email protected]’s explanation in the comments, the Matrix address can be given as the link

https://matrix.to/#/@[yourusername]:[your.server]
  • @QuazarOmegaEnglish
    12•1 year ago

    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

    • stravanasuOPEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      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.

        • stravanasuOPEnglish
          2•1 year ago

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