4 ms·

Despite of the (rightfully) privacy concerns showed on comments, I cannot help but see this kind of projects with some kind of sadness/nostalgia. Long gone are

Despite of the (rightfully) privacy concerns showed on comments, I cannot help but see this kind of projects with some kind of sadness/nostalgia. Long gone are the days of Pidgin and co, where you could have whatever contacts on whatever service they used and you could chat with them from your app, fully integrated on your desktop/cli and set up with too much hassle, not needing to run any browser instance, electron stuff or things like that. imho instant messaging now is a complete mess.

normaler 5y ago
You can live that life again with your own Matrix Server + bridges to other Servers. Right now I get: - Matrix - Whatsapp - Telegramm - Signal - Instagram In one chat app in my phone and desktop.
- tekromancr 5y ago
  +1 to this! I did something similar and you can deploy the whole deal on a cheep VM somewhere using https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/tree/master/docs https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/t... It probably took me about 2 hours total to work through the documentation and get everything configured just the way I wanted it, then you just run a couple ansible commands and boop, you have a matrix homeserver + web ui + jitsi meet + bridges to whatever you want. It's pretty great! It's my goto chat app now.
tasogare 5y ago
The messaging app of Windows Phone that blended seemlessly SMS, facebook messenger and a third provider was awesome to use. Regulators should in my opinion impose that the message app with XX millions users provide an API for interoperability with other services.
dddw 5y ago
BlackBerry inbox does that on android. Seriously great
zhte415 5y ago
I also remember Pidgin fondly. I have now given up on IM and just email or call people.
deleted 5y ago
[deleted]
RotaryTelephone 5y ago
No one mentioned Franz that integrates a boat load of chat services into one desktop window??? Been using it for years.
- voltaireodactyl 5y ago
  Franz, while a worthy solution, appears to simply combine all the requisite web pages/apps into one app -- meaning you're still dealing with all the various standards and shortcut sets. The beauty of the Pidgn setup was that any contact was essentially indistinguishable from any other, at least by service. All appeared in the same chat window list, and you spoke to all using the same interface. It was glorious.

normaler 5y ago

You can live that life again with your own Matrix Server + bridges to other Servers. Right now I get: - Matrix - Whatsapp - Telegramm - Signal - Instagram In one chat app in my phone and desktop.

tekromancr 5y ago
+1 to this! I did something similar and you can deploy the whole deal on a cheep VM somewhere using https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/tree/master/docs https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/t... It probably took me about 2 hours total to work through the documentation and get everything configured just the way I wanted it, then you just run a couple ansible commands and boop, you have a matrix homeserver + web ui + jitsi meet + bridges to whatever you want. It's pretty great! It's my goto chat app now.

tasogare 5y ago

The messaging app of Windows Phone that blended seemlessly SMS, facebook messenger and a third provider was awesome to use. Regulators should in my opinion impose that the message app with XX millions users provide an API for interoperability with other services.

dddw 5y ago

BlackBerry inbox does that on android. Seriously great

zhte415 5y ago

I also remember Pidgin fondly. I have now given up on IM and just email or call people.

deleted 5y ago

[deleted]

RotaryTelephone 5y ago

No one mentioned Franz that integrates a boat load of chat services into one desktop window??? Been using it for years.

voltaireodactyl 5y ago
Franz, while a worthy solution, appears to simply combine all the requisite web pages/apps into one app -- meaning you're still dealing with all the various standards and shortcut sets. The beauty of the Pidgn setup was that any contact was essentially indistinguishable from any other, at least by service. All appeared in the same chat window list, and you spoke to all using the same interface. It was glorious.