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Bridge set up between Matrix and Discord (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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We set up a bridge between the Lemmy.world General Matrix room and the Public-1 channel on the Lemmy World discord server yesterday. It's not perfect as emoji reactions aren't visible and some minor things like how it handles edited messages but other than that it seems to be working well.

Now people on both chat clients can interact with eachother!

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[-] BourneHavoc@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

This is really cool!

[-] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's super neat letting everyone talk with everyone. Reminds me of the old IRC days! ❤️

[-] Ferris@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

bitlbee & Janus!

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

They do something like that for Jellyfin as well. Very cool thing to do!

[-] greenmarty@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago

It seem idea of fedderating has spread even beyong feerated network. It's good thing. Sort of antimonopolisti.

[-] ballzovsteel@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

What is this for someone who has no idea?

[-] kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee 89 points 1 year ago

Two different, incompatible chat services exist - Discord and Matrix. This allows users of either service to post to a channel that has been connected on each side and messages are basically cross posted between the two, allowing users on each service to almost chat like they are all on the same channel despite being on two different chat services.

[-] ballzovsteel@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Thanks! That’s nifty!

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Thinking of it as two different rooms in a party being connected so they can all be involved in the same conversation.

[-] dhruv@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Looks like a bot that sends messages between through chat platforms

[-] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

What are recommended apps for Matrix on Android?

I'm considering using it, but I don't know much about Matrix clients.

[-] antik@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

There's:

For now I stick with Element. It's just seems to be the most feature-rich of them.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

I recommend fluffychat to most people because it's simple and straightforward. I use Element because it's fully featured and a bit more complex. So choose your poison

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I would also recommend fluffy chat to people because in addition to that it's also one of the only ones to support multiple accounts, an important feature for element because simply switching back and forth between accounts isn't feasible on a service with end-to-end encryption where you have to maintain a single login else lose your keys and prior encrypted messaging history.

[-] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I use the chat that is available in Thunderbird, my email client. It can connect to various types of chat (I dont remember them all) like Matrix.

[-] Anemervi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Official client list https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

[-] Frays6142@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I've personally been using Element and love it. I have a private matrix server for my family to use. Some of the members of the family have also loved FluffyChat.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

i like cinny because it's the most discord like

[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Element is decent. Started playing around with Fluffy which also seems good.

[-] PDFuego@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Since it's been mentioned here but nobody's said anything else about it yet, Beeper is nice because it connects a bunch of different apps and everything syncs instantly between PC and mobile. I personally use it for Matrix, a couple of Discord servers, Messenger (for those friends who won't leave) and SMS.

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[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Could the bridge be used by bots that work with Discord but not with Matrix? 🤔Bc there's quite a few of those, and me as a Matrix user can't have anything

[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] Rooki@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Nope not directly doable. As the messages are webhooks and most bots ignore those

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'd just want to be passively notified, not looking to control the bot

[-] clara@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

this might be a good place for me to reach out into the void

i'm interested in migrating two of my servers over to a matrix server, but i also want to back-copy all the old messages to the matrix client.

does a matrix bridge do all this copying? i.e, if i was to setup a discord-matrix bridge, allow messages to sync, and then disconnect the bridge, does the matrix server then have a copy of all the old messages? it doesn't have to match to the old users or anything, i'm just interested in having the content migrate over.

this is currently the biggest hurdle for me, because one of my servers is a private family discord, and i really don't want to have to explain to my mum that "all the content of the last 4 years is gone" 😅

[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Short answer: yes. Longer answer: I have a matrix server with a whatsapp bridge. If I remove the connection between WhatsApp and matrix, I can still see a the contacts and messages (of WhatsApp) in matrix.

If you have questions reach out, no problem.

[-] antik@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But it will only bridge messages that are sent AFTER you created the bridge. It looks like he's asking to copy the complete history of those discord channels over to matrix.

[-] clara@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

i do have a question, sure

for the avoidance of doubt, you are saying that a matrix bridge can copy all previous messages over from a discord server, to a matrix server, even the messages made before the creation of the bridge? i.e, transfer the entire conversation log over to the matrix server, going back all the way to the first message in a channel?

actually, phrasing this another way, i just caught myself in the XY problem. what i need really, is a copy of a given discord server's content, onto a fresh matrix server. bridge or no bridge. is there any way to (broadly) copy and paste the content of a discord channel over to a matrix server, one time only. i know how to extract the discord content using the discord chat log tool, tokens etc. so, say i have one of those html files with the full chatlog and contents - how do i put that into a matrix server, and have it roughly readable? (if that's possible)

thank you for your patience, i have tried search engines for months with no clear answers

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[-] antik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think that's possible. At least the bridge software we used you can only link one matrix room to one discord channel. And the chat history from discord is not transferred either.

We're currently using https://t2bot.io/