#slidge — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #slidge, aggregated by home.social.
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Signal dropping the #phoneNumber requirement, which never existed in the 27 years of #Jabber, is a step in the right direction. Congratulations!
It's still a centralized #walledGarden in the backyard of Jeff B. and there is still no native client for #Linux.
Which makes the #XMPP #slidge bridge (slidgnal) by @nicoco more interesting than ever.
https://codeberg.org/slidge/slidgnal
Somebody™ (i.e. not me) really needs to package it for #Debian alongside the Matrix one (matridge).
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@carostar Wenn du selber hosten magst, dann ist #XMPP mit #Slidge gateways https://slidge.im eine gute Lösung.
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New blog post! Some heartwarming news from the slidge community: the family is growing.
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@debacle @ueckueck @datenpunks @kursif
Ich benutze #Jabber seit 2008. Enfangs mit ejabberd, seit einiger Zeit aber mit prosody, weil man damit eher einen Transport zu zB Whatsapp hinbekommen hat.
Ich habe seit Sommer auch #slidge und bin recht begeistert: WA, Signal, Matrix und Telegram laufen im XMPP mit. -
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Kicking-off Day 2 of the 28th XMPP Summit with #Slidge! It's a #gateway framework to connect to #WhatsApp, #Signal, #Discord, #Telegram and many more! https://codeberg.org/slidge
https://xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-28/
Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!
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More from #snikket / #xmpp exploration
Just had an audio and video call working with a family member, which is more than I ever managed with #matrix / #elementx
The final piece of the puzzle is integrating #slidge so that I can keep in contact with the rest of the family from one app, and then it's decommissioning time...
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Hatte vorhin eine nette Unterhaltung mit einem der Maintainer von slidge.im, da mein WA-Transport nach einem Update nicht mehr lief, bzw. ständig abbrach.
Es wurde gekümmert, nun gehts wieder! :)
Nicht mit Telefonhotline und Warteschlangen, sondern per XMPP-Gruppenchat. -
@TheDailyBurble, happy to help.
Another cool feature of #XMPP are "gateways" that make it relatively easy to connect with other IMs.
e.g.
#Libervia to #ActivityPub and #email (CC @Goffi )https://nlnet.nl/project/Libervia
https://libervia.org#Slidge to all sorts of other IM like #Matrix, #Mattermost, #Steam, #Discord, #Whatsapp, FB … (CC @nicoco )
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Libervia CLI Tip 12:
You want to communicate with people using a third-party network? XMPP has a long history of "gateways", server components which let you communicate with non-XMPP networks (so-called "legacy" networks in XMPP literature).
The `li gateway` commands help you discover, register or unregister to such gateway.
Libervia itself implements gateways (to communicate with ActivityPub or Email). Check also https://slidge.im
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My #Letsencrypt certificates auto-renewed (yay!) but did not propagate correctly to #Prosody (XMPP server), and #Slidge (Whatsapp-to-XMPP bridge) silently lost connection, meaning that I missed on roughly a week of family chat, only thinking "what a boring time of year".
I'll have to rethink this Rube Goldberg machine of message delivery.
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While we'd like everyone to use decentralised messaging standards like #XMPP, there are times when you just want to stay in touch with a friend or group on the #murky lands of the other side. Thankfully we have software like #Matterbridge and #Slidge to bridge your messages across to other platforms—although no guarantees about what happens to your message once it reaches there 🤖️
Art for #Inktober by @badrihippo 🎨️
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There are some #FOSS projects I know that long, they almost became like old friends. There's @movim from @edhelas for example. Though I only used it for a short period of time and never contributed, I know it since the beginning (which is quite some years ago) and learned a lot about writing PHP- and websocket based server services along the way. That was helpful for me and it's great to see those people are still up and running and developing it, including #slidge, which I didn't know before.
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@raccoon regarding WhatsApp, they used to support KaiOS but decided to drop support last February. Possibly one of the reasons people became interested in Convo. Since it's XMPP, #slidge should work but I don't know if that'd be functional enough for you?
In India the main barrier is banking and payment apps which are increasingly locked down and usually don't run if your phone is rooted, let alone trying a custom ROM or something like #Waydroid. Of course, they only support Android and iOS 😕
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@nigel good to know! I last experimented with bridges, what...a decade ago? They were pretty unstable at the point (more the fault of the messaging companies changing their APIs every so often than anything else) but it's good to hear things have improved
I'm lucky not to have to use most of those centralised platforms any more, but I should try running #slidge again and see if it helps my friends
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#XMPP is the gold standard for interoperability. Its ability to connect projects from different creators is unparalleled, making it the go-to choice for seamless communication.
Community member Luke wrote a guide on configuring #Openfire to work with #Slidge.
Slidge is a gateway designed to connect you to chat networks like WhatsApp, Telegram or Matrix. It acts as a bridge, allowing you to interact with your contacts directly from your single, preferred XMPP client.
