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There are certain messenger apps I would like to continue using (midwest.social)

submitted 3 days ago by Brutticus@midwest.social to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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last night, my pixel came! I flashed Graphene and I am now running it smoothly!

I am in the process of downloading apps and I have a question: I am interested in at least using discord on this device. It is absolutely one of my most used apps. On PC, I use legchord. Im a big fan. Is there something similar available for mobile? and I have a similar question for Whatsapp, and FB messenger (although those are less important)?

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[–] Mikina@programming.dev 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I run my own Matrix server and just bridge Whatsapp, Messenger, Discord and Telegram to it. Element (a matrix client I'm using) Works without google services.

The only catch is I have to have a second Play-services enabled profile on the phone, and sign in to whatsapp there every two weeks, so it keeps my Matrix session fresh.

[–] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Any chance you have instructions somewhere on running these bridges? I'd love to do that, myself.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Sure!

I highly recommend using the matrix-ansible-docker-deploy. It has a pretty good documentation that should not give you much trouble, if you have at least very basic self-hosting experience (i.e can get a domain, a server, and set up SSH and firewall ports), and configuring it to do what you want is usually just adding a single config line into vars.yml when setting it up.

Once you get to the configuration step in the quickstart, where you change a few rows, also take a look at the more in-depth configuration documentation, and scroll down to the chapter about configuring bridges/bridging other networks.

For example, setting up a messanger bridge is literally just adding matrix_mautrix_meta_messenger_enabled: true into your vars.yml when you are setting it up.

[–] scott@lem.free.as 1 points 2 days ago

Each one is slightly different, obvs.

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/

[–] someonesmall@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

I did the same 4 years ago and it kinda worked, but often Telegram messages were not delivered (never saw them). Compatibility also broke for some messeger a few weeks later. It was not worth the time invest.