Re:Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right
by Teever on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:05AM
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> my current primary use case is running a matrix/sms gateway on my phone so I can forward my SMS to my desktop; the xmpp one I used eons ago was slightly more cumbersome.
Can you tell me more about this? I'm interested in doing this very thing.
Re:Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right
by MattJ100 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:12AM
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If you're looking for something off-the-shelf, there is https://jmp.chat/ (basically linking a phone number with your XMPP account, works with Snikket).
If you're more into self-hosting, take a look at this route: https://sms4you.xama.nu/
Re:Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right
by jasonjayr on Thursday February 11, 2021 @09:55AM
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I am using this app: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.droogers.smsmatrix/
You create a login for it, and put your identity into it. When messages come in, it creates a 2-person room with itself and you, and can type your sms responses. MMS's don't work, sadly, but a few people I regularly use it with send .SMIL image attachments that get forwarded.
I run a personal federated matrix server. It has many .. 'quirks', including an upgrade that screwed up my database and required me to redo it from scratch, and a lot of little ongoing http requests (as it syncs room state and what not) I'm doing it as a test run to see if it would work as an IRC replacement at my day job, but based on my experience, I have not found anything as maintenance free as our IRC server.
FWIW, my current primary use case is running a matrix/sms gateway on my phone so I can forward my SMS to my desktop; the xmpp one I used eons ago was slightly more cumbersome.
Quick edit: there is no central authority to register your personal server. you create a /.well-known/matrix/server endpoint on your primary domain that points at your real matrix server (and/or DNS SRV records) and your good to go.