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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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[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

It supports everything that is supported by libpurple

[–] nicocool84@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 (1 children)

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

[–] nicocool84@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But what is dead may never die!