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I just had to go and look this up to get more details
https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/
Looks like you need to be hosting your own server, then you can install plugins for separate services. Very cool..
I'd love to tie together a few different systems I'm using but I worry that the bridges will break every time a platform does an update
Have long have you been using it? How's your experience been? What bridges are you using?
You don't have to host your own, just join an instance with bridges. That being said, running your own is easy and nice with docker, including the bridges.
Where would be a good starting point to check out a list of instances with these bridges? And how safe are they?
this is why I never got into matrix. I don't actually know how lol, the page doesn't list servers available and i don't really want to just spin up my own just for myself
I apperently had tried element out using a matrix.org account at some because when I went on the client I was already logged in, I vaugly remember it but it didn't really give a great first impression.
anyway, I decided to look around it again to give it another shot, I really don't think it's a good idea to relate it to Discord, the documentation itself says it's more similar to IRC than Discord. It lacks fairly basic features that you would expect to see in a current day chat service, for permissions example: they do have basic permissions and they've stated that more coming but there's no way to fine tune them for example if you want to give the ability to delete message you need to give the ability for every permission under the below the redact message permission (which is hard set at perm level 50 if I remember right). This in my opinion is actually worse than IRC in that matter, as with IRC I could fine tune someone to have Channel topic editing permissions and the ability to hide that they are there but I didn't necessarily need to give them disconnect or Banning permissions at the same time and visa versa.
I'm sure it's perfect for some pieple but, I'll stick with modern day implementations till they give a bit more control, but I'm pretty certain with the current spec it's not possible at this time
Sign up for beeper and all the hosting is done for you
sadly they're on restricted signup
hmm, I wonder if there's a way for me to host my own matrix server and do the bridging myself, like a docker container or something.
Beeper is a paid Matrix server that neatly integrates with many other chat services using a custom GUI specifically designed for integration with third party apps.
There's a free tier but there will be a paid tier eventually
Just sign up for beeper they host all major bridges including imessage and then if you need additional bridges you can self host them
Very interesting