Spectrum 2
Ferdi
Spectrum 2 | Ferdi | |
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6 | 81 | |
390 | 645 | |
0.0% | - | |
7.2 | 9.3 | |
26 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
C++ | JavaScript | |
- | Apache License 2.0 |
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Spectrum 2
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Pidgin's Architecture
This is the point where I lose everyone and a big reason for this is that people don't understand how libpurple works with Pidgin, Finch, Adium, bitlbee, spectrum2, telepathy-haze, and maybe others I'm not aware of or forgetting. So that's what we're going to try and tackle today.
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More Instant Messaging Interoperability
> 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.
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The first beta of Slidge (XMPP bridges) is out
It's actually closer to spectrum2 in how it behaves. I hope slidge will get as rock-solid as biboumi is!
https://spectrum.im/
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Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in One Place
I want this to take off. I'm tired of having to follow trends: IRC to ICQ to MSN to Skype to Google Talk to Facebook Messenger to Whatsapp to Signal.
Pidgin is good (I also miss the ancient Trillian, even though it was closed source), but limited to a local device.
There are XMPP Transports as well for these (see https://git.eta.st/eta/whatsxmpp , https://gitlab.com/nicocool84/spectrum2_signald , but sadly https://spectrum.im/ is surprisingly finicky to set up.)
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Ask HN: How did Google botch messaging/video/hangouts so badly?
There are at least hundreds of implementations of XMPP that are interoperable (at 5-6 actively developed server implementations, many more libraries and many client applications). There are at least hundreds of thousands deployed XMPP services.
In addition XMPP can be linked with other protocols/networks via bridges/gateways. Some examples:
- Spectrum: XMPP gateway project based on libpurple (support for many protocols): https://spectrum.im/
- WhatsApp bridge: https://git.eta.st/eta/whatsxmpp
- Telegram bridge: https://github.com/codingteam/emulsion
- Signal bridge: https://gitlab.com/nicocool84/slidge/ (replacement of https://gitlab.com/nicocool84/spectrum2_signald/ )
Given such a diverse ecosystem of open-source and proprietary implementations, I'd say XMPP is one of the best examples of widespread protocol interoperability that there is.
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Can anyone explain XMPP bridges and how I can use them?
Nope, the project is almost dead (as most XMPP projects), but there are some recent commits at https://github.com/SpectrumIM/spectrum2
Ferdi
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Messaging app (multiple services)
It's subscription priced now...? Maybe try Ferdi instead...? Same App but without subscriptions. https://github.com/getferdi/ferdi
- Gmail and Calendar wrapper?
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Multiprotocol chat client?
Suggesting this one must be cheating https://github.com/getferdi/ferdi
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Ferdium opens slack calls in default browser
This probably was already a problem in Ferdi. There is/was an issue on github https://github.com/getferdi/ferdi/issues/1458
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Stuck in 'mobile' single column layout when used through Ferdi
I use Ferdi to multiplex my messaging apps and have them all in one place. It's basically a glorified web browser that only opens iframes to specific pages (eg: discord). In this environment Discord has some interesting behavior where the menu bar at the top left is very slow to respond, and despite large window sizes (and refreshing at these large window sizes) the screen always seems to be in a single column layout, never showing the chat messages + channel list at the same time.
- [September 2022] Browsers list
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getferdi website is up again!? I guess can't be trusted?
I just noticed the getferdi.com website is up again including a video, link to the code etc.
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Selfhosted application for joining chat services?
Then you can use https://github.com/getferdi/ferdi, which is a unrestricted Fork of Franz
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[GUIDE] Creating native applications for web-apps on Linux
Ferdi (Website, GitHub): Free fork of Franz. Announced on June 11, 2022 that "There will be no further updates to Ferdi. 🏄♂️" but that tweet is now deleted and the repo is updating again... But they've disabled the issue tracker behind a $9/month paywall.
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Should I use ferdi? after the drama?
I see that the repo is back (https://github.com/getferdi/ferdi)
What are some alternatives?
Actor - Actor Messaging platform
ferdium - Ferdi when Ferdi is gone
Rallly - Rallly is an open-source scheduling and collaboration tool designed to make organizing events and meetings easier.
franz - Franz is a free messaging app for services like WhatsApp, Slack, Messenger and many more.
Node-Chat - :speech_balloon: Chat application built with NodeJS and Material Design
Ferdium - Ferdium is a desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps by combining them into one application.
Live Helper Chat - Live Helper Chat - live support for your website. Featuring web and mobile apps, Voice & Video & ScreenShare. Supports Telegram, Twilio (whatsapp), Facebook messenger including building a bot.
caprine - Elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app
Niltalk - Instant, disposable, single-binary web based live chat server. Go + VueJS.
community-edition - Free and Open Source messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.
Rocket.Chat - The communications platform that puts data protection first.
hamsket - Free and Open Source messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.