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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Lemongrab@lemmy.one to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

It seems like an awesome project that fulfills a lot of the requirements for bridging many popular messaging platforms (like FB messenger, WhatsApp, discord, signal, and more). I wanted to share because I know a lot of us have friends and family who still use antiquated/proprietary communication platforms. Fair warning, I have not tried self hosting it myself yet since my server is kinda of a mess right now. Lmk what y'all think.

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[-] nicocool84@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago

Yes, it's totally fantastic, and I'm not biased at all when I talk about it. xD

[-] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 0 points 8 months ago

Understandable. I have to agree (though I have no experience to back it up)

[-] piefedderatedd@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago

Looks like a nice project if you manage to run your own gateway. People have been posting about this one on Lemmy before https://lemmy.ml/comment/376398 and maybe the software code author is on Lemmy as well : https://lemmy.ml/post/2045121

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago
[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

So... this is like Matrix bridged but for XMPP? Great!

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago

Slidge gateways are puppeteering, meaning you need an account to remote control on the external legacy network, but other than that it usually works quite well for a young project like it is.

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

All expected.

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Isn't puppeteering, aka self botting, a bannable offense one some of these networks?

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002192352-Automated-user-accounts-self-bots This article is only half true. Bot accounts do not have full access to all API routes, but you can still be banned for botting regular accounts.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, but that is the only realistic way to do this. In praxis is basically never happens unless you start spamming etc.

[-] Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud 1 points 7 months ago

Does this work with Discord normal accounts?

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago

Yes, if you mean the Slidge Discord transport.

[-] Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud 1 points 7 months ago

Though I'm more intrested to see how it looks from XMPP side aka servers vs DMs

[-] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Is anyone using it? I've tried hosting a FB Messenger bridge to Matrix before but it would just disconnect constantly and didn't work.

[-] nicocool84@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

(I'm the maintainer) I do use the messenger bridge and it works for me, without disconnection issues.

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago

Yeah Spectrum does the same thing, been around over a decade!

[-] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 0 points 8 months ago

I looked it up but it doesn't seem to have support for many messengers.

[-] nicocool84@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

It does support a crazy amount of networks (it uses libpurple which is the lib of pidgin), unfortunately it lacks modern features and even groups don't work that well. I actually started to work on slidge because I was fed up with spectrum2's limitations and realised that spectrum2's maintainer think, like many others, that XMPP is dead...

[-] pztrn@bin.pztrn.name 0 points 8 months ago

Well... You know... It's kind of.

[-] nicocool84@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

But what is dead may never die!

[-] pztrn@bin.pztrn.name 2 points 8 months ago
[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

It supports everything that is supported by libpurple

this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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