@nominom I don’t get why so much chat software, and especially open source implementations, all do their own internal, various kinds of shitty contact management, when my perfectly good and powerful contact application supporting a standard syncing protocol (CardDAV) is right there. Like I get why you wouldn’t just rely on that, but a proper integration would be nice to have and would truly further the cause of decentralized systems.

@june @nominom

the only issue could be that carddev is not e2ee

but i would really love if those new chat platforms had carddav support still

@navi @nominom I don’t think generally E2EE is that much of a concern when it comes to contact management, as ideally one would use a trusted provider of course, tho I recognize this obviously isn’t generally the case, so it would be nice to have. And especially for storing verification codes it gets way more relevant indeed.
But also if e.g. Matrix clients would start by just properly adding and using Matrix IDs to/from my contacts, that would already be such a massive improvement.
And then long-term collectively putting in effort to enhance CardDAV with things like E2EE would be so much better than having everyone do a proprietary contact store instead.