biboumi VS server

IRC is great! I access through the excellent biboumi gateway, which offers bouncer-like functionality and let me choose between various clients. There are open instances available for everyone to use, although I couldn't give a list of them since I self-host. I like that it's very lightweight, making it a reasonable permacomputing approach to group chats.

I wouldn't go as far as saying it's the only viable chat protocol, if you follow the link below you'll guess what I have in mind saying that. (it starts with an X and ends with two Ps)

https://biboumi.louiz.org/

> and supports bridging to other types of networks which aren't matrix-based

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

Turn any XMPP client into that fancy multiprotocol chat app that every cool kid want.

> Signal, Telegram, Discord, Steam, Mattermost, Facebook, Skype

https://spectrum.im/

Spectrum is an open source instant messaging transport. It allows users to chat together even when they are using different IM networks.

https://github.com/louiz/biboumi

Biboumi is an XMPP gateway that connects to IRC servers and translates between the two protocols. It can be used to access IRC channels using any XMPP client as if these channels were XMPP MUCs.

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I'm using all of those daily to connect to all my other accounts, Slidge is the most modern one and is having lots of features ported to the modern XMPP extensions.

I looked into this. It seems that things changed since I last looked. The public repo hasn't been updated in a year: https://gitlab.com/escargot-chat/server

I wonder why they closed the source. Even if there is no 'benefit' to the team, sharing the source guarantees the longevity and preservation of MSN Messenger. That benefits the future.