AMamstan·Sep 21, 2023
My Facebook bridge constantly locks up my account. [1]
[1] https://github.com/mautrix/facebook/issues/236
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4 sourcesIt's unrelated, except for the fact that I used the reverse engineering of the facebook messenger protocol by the mautrix team [1]. XMPP has had bridges more or less from the start. [3]
I may add a "matrix plugin" [2] if I feel like it someday, but probably after I implement group chat support. Then you'll be able to use XMPP<->Matrix<->some-other-thing for extra over-engineering points. ;)
I prefer XMPP because it's lighter on resources, server-wise at least, and it's managed through a democratic process, which has it upsides and downsides. As someone I like said "democracy is boring, dictatorship works faster".
[1] https://github.com/mautrix/facebook
[2] https://todo.sr.ht/~nicoco/slidge/27
[3] https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0100.html
In Slidge – XMPP bridgesNo it doesn't, you need to impersonate an user and login with your password in order to relay messages outside of FB messenger. That said, it has been done: https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-facebook
In A legislative path to an interoperable internetI'm interested to see how they handle the Facebook messenger bridge since FB seems to rather aggressive about the bridge from logging in.
I've been running Tulir's bridge [0] for a few months now and my Facebook account gets locked out every week or so (requiring unlocking and a new password).
EDIT: Looking at the code, they use Tulir's bridge as well. I'd be..cautious about claming production level support with it due to the afore mentioned logout issue. Which is a shame since all of Tulir's bridges are high quality.
The bridgebox repo appears to be a bunch of bridges in docker containers. I wonder if it's really worth running the bridgebox and not a homeserver, versus using matrix-docker-ansible-deploy [1]. You already need the VPS space.
[0]: https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-facebook
[1]: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ans