Onboarding centralized? [add contact with vCard, besides i.delta.chat]

You can read how invite links work at GitHub - deltachat/invite: Invite links for deltachat · GitHub
Delta Chat handles the links internally and does not depend on i.delta.chat website to be up.

https://i.delta.chat is a fallback for the case when user does not have Delta Chat installed, telling to install Delta Chat and using the link inside the app. No data about the contact is sent to i.delta.chat even when you open the link in a browser.

I have previously wrote a longer post at

You can use vCards for this. Send a contact as an attachment (you can send contact “Me” to self as well), then export it, then send it any way you like.