If this got more development energy put on matrix bridges, this seems like a net win. IRC still works, but is used through a matrix bridge… I would love to have a unified chat layer

It's totally sweet. I consolidated WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger and Instagram into my Matrix server, and get it all via Element. Battery life is many magnitudes better on my Pixel and ThinkPad as a result instead of running all this background crap.

One app to install on any device, any OS, including Linux, and all my messages appear, SMS included. What's not to love?

syntaxing

I setup my synapse about 6 months ago, and it was not easy to get the bridges working. I would argue I’m pretty technically sound but getting everything running took a lot of trial and error. If the bridges deployed easier like a snap package, it would help a ton.

wkat4242

There's an amazing Ansible playbook. Use that, it's great and easy to keep everything up to date.

endigma

Link?

wkat4242

Yeah sorry I was on mobile when I wrote that so I didn't have it to hand.

Here it is: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy