I want to bring some attention to Slidge XMPP Bridges

Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Lemongrab@lemmy.one⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

https://git.sr.ht/~nicoco/slidge

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 use 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yes, it’s totally fantastic, and I’m not biased at all when I talk about it. xD

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- Lemongrab@lemmy.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Understandable. I have to agree (though I have no experience to back it up)
  
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piefedderatedd@piefed.social ⁨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

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- poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes @nicocool84@sh.itjust.works is the main author and a mod on slrpnk’s xmpp community.
  
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wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah Spectrum does the same thing, been around over a decade!

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- Lemongrab@lemmy.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I looked it up but it doesn’t seem to have support for many messengers.
  
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  - nicocool84@sh.itjust.works ⁨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…
    
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  - wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It supports everything that is supported by libpurple
    
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TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So… this is like Matrix bridged but for XMPP? Great!

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- poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨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.
  
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  - TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    All expected.
    
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  - i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Isn’t puppeteering, afk self botting, a bannable offense one some of these networks?
    
    …discord.com/…/115002192352-Automated-user-accoun… 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.
    
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MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨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.

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- nicocool84@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  (I’m the maintainer) I do use the messenger bridge and it works for me, without disconnection issues.
  
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