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1. Fantasia (fantasia@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 04:18:33 JST Fantasia

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   >it's all well and fine to have an opinion and preference, but how do you deal with the lack of interop
   Someone was making an app called texts.com to combine them.
   > it seems like this introduces a large cognitive load and becomes unsustainable.
   me too that's why i use only one or two on your list
   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 04:18:33 JST Machismo

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     @fantasia @threat >texts.com
     >lets you send and receive messages from all major messaging platforms
     That's just libpurple for zoomers.
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   • Vril (vril_oreilly@comfyboy.club)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 04:22:02 JST Vril

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     >I won
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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 04:22:16 JST Machismo

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     @Vril_Oreilly @threat @fantasia It's very frustrating.
   • Fantasia (fantasia@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 04:23:05 JST Fantasia

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     Never heard of libpurple before. Looking into it more, it doesn't seem to support as many platforms as texts.com
     
     some zoomers know their stuff, don't underestimate them all!
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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 04:24:16 JST Machismo

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     @fantasia @threat Did you look at the plugins?
     I don't think twitter would have one, but I won't rule it out. Omegle used to have one (which was probably also Eion Robb's doing).
   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 04:27:49 JST Machismo

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     @threat @fantasia Anyway, my point stands: Contribute plugins to libpurple, or something similar (it's not the only one out there AFAIK) instead of trying to reinvent the wheel with javascript.
     Or write clients using those interfaces.
     
     (I have seen criticisms of libpurple that seemed reasonable enough, and I accidentally ended up working on a similar thing which I'm calling chatlib, but that's python so I don't really recommend it.)
   • Fantasia (fantasia@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 04:29:39 JST Fantasia

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     https://keep.imfreedom.org/pidgin/pidgin/file/tip/libpurple/protocols
     
     
     There seems to be external ones for Discord and Matrix
     https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-discord
     https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix
     
     second glance it seems like it has good support for messaging protocols, disregard my previous statement
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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 04:31:24 JST Machismo

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     @fantasia @threat Discord one may or may not get your account banned (but it's dicksore so nothing of value is lost), and both of them will frequently cause pidgin to suffer if you're in more than a handful of rooms/guilds. I don't know about other libpurple clients, the only other one I've used is finch, and that's basically just whenever I manage to crash x.
   • Fantasia (fantasia@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 04:32:01 JST Fantasia

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     Thanks for sharing i will check it out. Not a fan of Javascript or closed source apps in general
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   • Fantasia (fantasia@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 04:34:36 JST Fantasia

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     I do not DM people on Discord and rarely use it for guilds. Anyone that wants to talk to me will do so on another platform
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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 04:35:14 JST Machismo

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     @fantasia @threat Then it should be safe to try pidgin with purple-discord, in terms of performance.