Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place

Re:Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegra... by josteink on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:31AM (#28999574)

WA works with a pure go-based bridge. No Android required.

The rest of your comment is true though. Keeping these bridges up 24/7 is quite a bit of work. Most people (even technical ones) probably won’t bother with that.

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Re:Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegra... by your_challenger on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @10:13AM (#29000649)

You need WhatsApp to be installed on a real device or a VM for mautrix-whatapp [1] (the bridge) to work. You also need to connect to that real device using WhatsApp web [2].

I know because I've used the bridge.

[1] https://github.com/mautrix/whatsapp [2] https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/go/whatsapp/authentication.html

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Re:Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegra... by lvass on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @10:06AM (#29000557)

Which bridge is it? Mautrix/whatsapp does require an Android instance of whatsapp.

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Re:Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegra... by josteink on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @02:46AM (#29010252)

Nah. You can pair it up to an real WhatsApp-account using your phone and from there on, it’s go-code only.

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