More from #snikket / #xmpp exploration
Just had an audio and video call working with a family member, which is more than I ever managed with #matrix / #elementx
The final piece of the puzzle is integrating #slidge so that I can keep in contact with the rest of the family from one app, and then it's decommissioning time...
Good news everyone! ✨
Movim is now implementing XEP-0317: Hats and can display your chatroom Roles 🤩
And with the awesome work done with @nicoco on #Slidge the Discord, Telegram and WhatsApp roles are now also displayed in Movim properly 👌
Now lets work on the admin panels to configure them 💪!
Hatte vorhin eine nette Unterhaltung mit einem der Maintainer von slidge.im, da mein WA-Transport nach einem Update nicht mehr lief, bzw. ständig abbrach.
Es wurde gekümmert, nun gehts wieder! :)
Nicht mit Telefonhotline und Warteschlangen, sondern per XMPP-Gruppenchat.
@mntmn And, you can continue bridging to Telegram (and other networks) with #slidge (https://slidge.im) if you want 😄
Avviso per chi usa il bridge di Whatsapp su #Slidge:
Se il dispositivo principale è Android e la versione di Whatsapp installata è 2.25.32.xx, l’app disconnetterà il bridge e lo rifarà ad ogni tentativo di riaccoppiamento.
Il problema è stato corretto sulla libreria Whatsmeow, ma non è ancora stata ancora integrata in Slidge. Come fix temporaneo, tornate a Whatsapp 2.25.31.xx
Been working on getting Slidgnal, a #XMPP to #Signal gateway built on #Slidge back up and running with a mix of Go and Python; after a recent spree of work, we have fairly good support for 1-on-1 chats with reactions, attachments, etc. all working. Couldn't have been done without the great work by @nicoco and tulir (tulir.fi on bsky).
If you're running your own #XMPP server and are looking to bridge your #Signal contacts over, give it a go, repo is here https://codeberg.org/slidge/slidgnal and Docker/Podman or PyPi-based installs are well-supported! Group support is up next!
@TheDailyBurble, happy to help.
Another cool feature of #XMPP are "gateways" that make it relatively easy to connect with other IMs.
e.g.
#Libervia to #ActivityPub and #email (CC @Goffi )
https://nlnet.nl/project/Libervia
https://libervia.org
#Slidge to all sorts of other IM like #Matrix, #Mattermost, #Steam, #Discord, #Whatsapp, FB … (CC @nicoco )
Libervia CLI Tip 12:
You want to communicate with people using a third-party network? XMPP has a long history of "gateways", server components which let you communicate with non-XMPP networks (so-called "legacy" networks in XMPP literature).
The `li gateway` commands help you discover, register or unregister to such gateway.
Libervia itself implements gateways (to communicate with ActivityPub or Email). Check also https://slidge.im
My #Letsencrypt certificates auto-renewed (yay!) but did not propagate correctly to #Prosody (XMPP server), and #Slidge (Whatsapp-to-XMPP bridge) silently lost connection, meaning that I missed on roughly a week of family chat, only thinking "what a boring time of year".
I'll have to rethink this Rube Goldberg machine of message delivery.
While we'd like everyone to use decentralised messaging standards like #XMPP, there are times when you just want to stay in touch with a friend or group on the #murky lands of the other side. Thankfully we have software like #Matterbridge and #Slidge to bridge your messages across to other platforms—although no guarantees about what happens to your message once it reaches there 🤖️
Art for #Inktober by @badrihippo 🎨️
There are some #FOSS projects I know that long, they almost became like old friends. There's @movim from @edhelas for example. Though I only used it for a short period of time and never contributed, I know it since the beginning (which is quite some years ago) and learned a lot about writing PHP- and websocket based server services along the way. That was helpful for me and it's great to see those people are still up and running and developing it, including #slidge, which I didn't know before.
@raccoon regarding WhatsApp, they used to support KaiOS but decided to drop support last February. Possibly one of the reasons people became interested in Convo. Since it's XMPP, #slidge should work but I don't know if that'd be functional enough for you?
In India the main barrier is banking and payment apps which are increasingly locked down and usually don't run if your phone is rooted, let alone trying a custom ROM or something like #Waydroid. Of course, they only support Android and iOS 😕
Nueva entrada en mi gemlog:
Montando un WhatsApp gateway desde XMPP con Slidge.
gemini://z3r0.maverick-hq.org/gemlog/montando-un-whatsapp-gateway-desde-xmpp-con-slidge.gmi
#geminispace #geminiprotocol #geminicapsule #xmpp #slidge #whatsapp #español #spanish
@nigel good to know! I last experimented with bridges, what...a decade ago? They were pretty unstable at the point (more the fault of the messaging companies changing their APIs every so often than anything else) but it's good to hear things have improved
I'm lucky not to have to use most of those centralised platforms any more, but I should try running #slidge again and see if it helps my friends
@Edent not a matrix user myself and can't say #xmpp will impress you, but there's definitely not a centralization of ownership issues. Most of that community seems to be rallied behind #snikket lately which I self-host with delight thus far. Fragmentation in feature support across clients is the biggest struggle currently. More niche, but I do funnel my WhatsApp and Mattermost messaging through my XMPP server using #slidge. Been very stable for WA, have to restart Mattermost gateway regularly.
