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I am interested if anyone has (or is working on) a plugin for #bitlbee or #weechat for Bluesky (like the bitlbee plugin for Mastodon). While I'm aware you can use RSS feeds for individual users, I'm wanting a home timeline feed, preferably with ability to reply, but read-only is okay.

@pitermach @erion I mainly use #weechat as an accessible client for #irc and I also use, throught it, #bitlbee to access other protocols.

I got tired of having to open and look at ten different programs/websites/devices for instant messaging; and decided to centralize all my IM needs on my irc client with #bitlbee and #libpurple.

But telegram and whatsapp make doing that such a headache that i decided to give up after two days of failed set up. I will just minimize the use of those IMs to check once a week and keep using IRC as The One True group chat as i always have done.

> "alternatively keep yourself sane and just stick to a phone for those things... because at this point, it's not even worth fighting for an already lost cause" -- @yakumo_izuru

With all the interest in #mastodon I kinda wish the #libpurple #bitlbee or #irssi plugin compatibility wasn't so buggy...

My current WeeChat setup

Since it's come up in conversation a couple of times in the past week (waves at @snowdusk__ and @yarmo), here's a #screenshot of my current #WeeChat setup (though with different buffers selected than my usual arrangement).

"What am I looking at on the screenshot?"

A buffer list ¹ on the left. Buffers represent the channels, private message streams and status timelines from the various chat media you are connected to.
Side the buffer list are a variety of horizontally and vertically panes, which @weechat called 'windows', each window showing the contents of one
² of the buffers.

"What buffers are visible in these window panes?"

From top left to bottom right these are:

• #sourcehut's water cooler IRC channel,
• #Twitter timeline, provided through the Twitter #libpurple plugin for #Bitlbee.
• #chanmon, a Perl script to display activity from all currently active (and monitored) buffers.
• #highmon, a Perl script to display highlights from all (highlight-monitored) buffers.
• Lobby #IRC channel, general discussion channel.
• #openMSX on #liberaChat IRC network, for discussions regarding the #MSX emulator I occasionally contribute to.
• #Twitch chat channel for #Kikoskia's stream, provided by setting up a Twitch OAuth token and connecting over their IRC-compatible interface along with twitch python script for stream status details.
• The #WeeChat IRC channel on #libera.

"What's making it work?"

All running in a #tmux terminal multiplexer session, running under #WSL2 on #Windows, in the #WindowsTerminalPreview #terminal client.

(Repost to fix an at-mention...)

Footnotes

¹ though I still use buffers.pl script rather than the built-in buflist plugin because I'm too lazy to migrate my settings to make it look and act in the way I've gotten used to.
² or more, as buffers can be merged, displaying the contents of each of the merged buffers chronologically in the same window pane.

Hashtags

#Battlestations #chat #chatClients #IRCClients #IRCClient #InternetRelayChat #MultiProtocol #FOSS #FLOSS

My current WeeChat setup

Since it's come up in conversation a couple of times in the past week (waves at @snowdusk__ and @yarmo), here's a #screenshot of my current #WeeChat setup (though with different buffers selected than my usual arrangement).

"What am I looking at on the screenshot?"

A buffer list ¹ on the left. Buffers represent the channels, private message streams and status timelines from the various chat media you are connected to.
Side the buffer list are a variety of horizontally and vertically panes, which @weechat called 'windows', each window showing the contents of one
² of the buffers.

"What buffers are visible in these window panes?"

From top left to bottom right these are:

• #sourcehut's water cooler IRC channel,
• #Twitter timeline, provided through the Twitter #libpurple plugin for #Bitlbee.
• #chanmon, a Perl script to display activity from all currently active (and monitored) buffers.
• #highmon, a Perl script to display highlights from all (highlight-monitored) buffers.
• Lobby #IRC channel, general discussion channel.
• #openMSX on #liberaChat IRC network, for discussions regarding the #MSX emulator I occasionally contribute to.
• #Twitch chat channel for #Kikoskia's stream, provided by setting up a Twitch OAuth token and connecting over their IRC-compatible interface along with twitch python script for stream status details.
• The #WeeChat IRC channel on #libera.

"What's making it work?"

All running in a #tmux terminal multiplexer session, running under #WSL2 on #Windows, in the #WindowsTerminalPreview #terminal client.

(Repost to fix an at-mention...)

Footnotes

¹ though I still use buffers.pl script rather than the built-in buflist plugin because I'm too lazy to migrate my settings to make it look and act in the way I've gotten used to.
² or more, as buffers can be merged, displaying the contents of each of the merged buffers chronologically in the same window pane.

Hashtags

#Battlestations #chat #chatClients #IRCClients #IRCClient #InternetRelayChat #MultiProtocol #FOSS #FLOSS

Have #google finally turned off the old #jabber interface for hangouts? I can no longer get #bitlbee to connect to it in either native or #libpurple forms.

@joseph
I used #Bitlbee for a while to access #Twitter and #FBMessenger via my #IRC client.
@ilvar @yarmo @TheFuzzStone

@kelbot would using a bridge system like #Bitlbee be an interim solution perhaps? Unfortunately since Bitlbee presents itself as an #IRC server, it afaik doesn't support voice/video communication though.
Or alternatively a multi-protocol client like #Adium, #Pidgin, #Trillian? No idea if any of them still exist, but those are some I've used in the past to be present on multiple platforms while only using a single app.
@ajroach42