bitlbee VS bridge-manager

ah didn't realize it had gone away. its successor appears to be [0]

now I'm reliving the chaos of the late-00s/early-10s instant messaging apocalypse when AOL sunsetted AIM. Clients like Trillian were absolutely necessary before AIM shut down. Everybuddy was a good linux-friendly client. When I still spent time on IRC, I really really liked Bitlbee [1] with ERC [2].

(I'm not saying that there's a connection there, but rather that all the chat protocols started getting used less around the same time for the same reason, which was smartphones becoming commonplace in late-00s.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayttm

[1] https://www.bitlbee.org/

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/erc.html

I use purple-discord (libpurple/Pidgin plugin) + BItlBee (IRC chat gateway, libpurple variant) + Quassel (distribued IRC client, like a bouncer) on a home server, and use Quasseldroid to connect on mobile. I would eventually like to simplify this setup.

I used to have a similar setup to use IRC for everything using https://www.bitlbee.org. Fun times!

Another approach to this is to use bitlbee's twitter support and your favorite Emacs IRC client to access that. This is especially nice if you are using bitlbee anyway.

If you've followed Beeper, you know that roughly 50% of our product is already open source (https://github.com/beeper). You can run your own Matrix server and use our bridges, or self-host the bridges and use Beeper clients (https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager). For all intents and purposes, Beeper _is_ the rejuvenated and very open Pidgin.

Automattic is a fantastic home for us. We needed a home (or new investors) to keep working on Beeper.

To enable client-side bridging (and e2ee), each Beeper client will need to run the bridges locally. If you prefer, you could always self-host https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager and continue to use 3rd party Matrix clients. the Beeper homeserver is not going away!

If you self host synapse you can’t use the beeper apps but you could use the bridges we use and have multiple users. the better option is to use beepers matrix server and use https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager to host your own bridges. You can refer your wife to have her skip the waitlist and do the same thing

You can self-host any of our bridges if you prefer: https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager

https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager is where you start. This sets up the Beeper side and gives you a config file for the bridge software (which you download separately).

Yup! You can do this already today. You can self-host any bridge (https://github.com/beeper) and connect it to your Beeper account (https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager). It’s not easy but it works.

For self-host instructions - - No Beeper account: https://github.com/beeper/self-host - With Beeper account: https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager