purple-facebook VS awesome-pidgin-plugins

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).

> I have no strength for yet another switch

Pidgin with a shitton of plugins. If the only problem is the migration, that still works as a single client, albeit with drawbacks and hiccups. (I collected them at https://github.com/petermolnar/awesome-pidgin-plugins and yes, it'll need to be compiled, even Pidgin itself for some of the solutions. There's nothing user friendly about it, sadly.)

On the other hand... the only system I never had to migrate off is IRC. The funny bit of IRC is that it's not private in terms of security at all, but because it's anonymus, it still feels like it.

And so I keep thinking about needs when it comes to privacy: what do I really need in the context of internet communication? Anonymity, privacy, or both?

I don't have a definitive answer.

I have a github repo to collect plugins that makes Pidgin a bit more up to date on all levels. Pull requests welcome:

https://github.com/petermolnar/awesome-pidgin-plugins

I'm one of them, and I love it. Desktop clients are lagging in support compared to Conversations[^1] on Android, but even Pidgin can be flogged into an acceptable state[^2] - no video or audio though, I couldn't get that working, unlike with Prosody and Conversations[^3].

The thing with XMPP vs Matrix is weight: and XMPP server is featherweight compared to Matrix due to their different nature, so I honestly believe that XMPP still has a future.

(And maybe one day, Pidgin 3 will see the light[^4])

[^1]: https://conversations.im/

[^2]: https://github.com/petermolnar/awesome-pidgin-plugins

[^3]: https://gist.github.com/petermolnar/10d815eae0b7cbda2b1e5948...

[^4]: https://pidgin.im/development/building/3.0.0/