bitlbee VS purple-facebook

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.

I can't think of any way.

There is a Facebook plugin for Pidgin, and you can get at your chats that way with a more versatile cross-platform messenger, if you are more normally on other chat services.

https://pidgin.im/

https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/wiki

If you want web-based clients, try a multi-app client such as Ferdium, RamBox or Station.

You can still use the official clients. Also, there are third party clients for Messenger. I've used https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook with Pidgin.

This is a common issue in the facebook plugin. See https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/issues/514 for more information.

I went to try the Pidgin Facebook plugin, and I couldn't login. There's no more app passwords as the plugin suggests, if you try to login without the 2 factor Facebook sends "Is This You?" notifications every time, but doesn't let you login if you say yes.

There's github issue[1] for it and no resolution, except a weird python script hack to do 2 factor which may or may not be reliable.

1. https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/issues/526

Yeah... There's a bunch of talk at https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/issues/526 and https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/issues/445.

Looks like it _might_ be fixed? https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/issues/514

You are using https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/archive/refs/tags/v0.9.6.tar.gz as the distfile. This source code archive is automatically generated by github and the developers say that it shouldn't be used.

I use Pidgin on desktop and found a custom plugin that re-allows you to connect to Facebook's messaging service. I'm basically invisible and when someone sends me a message, it shows up in Pidgin but doesn't send a read receipt or let others know I'm typing back (even though I can see when they're typing).