Is anyone using it? I've tried hosting a FB Messenger bridge to Matrix before but it would just disconnect constantly and didn't work.
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(I'm the maintainer) I do use the messenger bridge and it works for me, without disconnection issues.
Yes, it's totally fantastic, and I'm not biased at all when I talk about it. xD
Understandable. I have to agree (though I have no experience to back it up)
Yeah Spectrum does the same thing, been around over a decade!
I looked it up but it doesn't seem to have support for many messengers.
It does support a crazy amount of networks (it uses libpurple which is the lib of pidgin), unfortunately it lacks modern features and even groups don't work that well. I actually started to work on slidge because I was fed up with spectrum2's limitations and realised that spectrum2's maintainer think, like many others, that XMPP is dead...
Well... You know... It's kind of.
But what is dead may never die!
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It supports everything that is supported by libpurple
So... this is like Matrix bridged but for XMPP? Great!
Slidge gateways are puppeteering, meaning you need an account to remote control on the external legacy network, but other than that it usually works quite well for a young project like it is.
Isn't puppeteering, aka self botting, a bannable offense one some of these networks?
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002192352-Automated-user-accounts-self-bots This article is only half true. Bot accounts do not have full access to all API routes, but you can still be banned for botting regular accounts.
Yes, but that is the only realistic way to do this. In praxis is basically never happens unless you start spamming etc.
Does this work with Discord normal accounts?
Yes, if you mean the Slidge Discord transport.
Though I'm more intrested to see how it looks from XMPP side aka servers vs DMs
All expected.
Looks like a nice project if you manage to run your own gateway. People have been posting about this one on Lemmy before https://lemmy.ml/comment/376398 and maybe the software code author is on Lemmy as well : https://lemmy.ml/post/2045121