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Re:Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin by pabs3 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:26AM (#35052243)
Pidgin still has a ton of modern messaging platform plugins:

https://pidgin.im/plugins/

OTR is sadly fairly dead; broken encryption, OTRv4 isn't out of beta yet.

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Re:Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin by toastal on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:31AM (#35052262)
Looks like OMEMO support hasn't landed either https://issues.imfreedom.org/issue/PIDGIN-16801 The Pidgin/libpurple team has a lot to handle as all of these proprietary chat options are constantly moving targets and trying to maintain feature parity on all of them. At least the FOSS options have publicly-documented specs and aren't actively hostile towards reverse engineering.
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Re:Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin by pabs3 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:48AM (#35052354)
OMEMO is for XMPP only so not as useful as OTR, but there is already a plugin for it:

https://github.com/gkdr/lurch

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Re:Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin by toastal on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:59AM (#35052425)
Awesome. I hadn't seen that. I remember using OTR in the past and switching from machines didn't really worj, but th multi-client csupport that OMEMO brings though is pretty critical in a world where a most have multiple machines. Is this something v4 brings?
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Re:Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin by pabs3 on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @12:06AM (#35065484)
Not sure, there is a copy of the draft for it here (original seems down):

https://github.com/otrv4/otrv4/

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