Bridge set up between Matrix and Discord
We set up a bridge between the Lemmy.world General Matrix room and the Public-1 channel on the Lemmy World discord server yesterday. It's not perfect as emoji reactions aren't visible and some minor things like how it handles edited messages but other than that it seems to be working well.
Now people on both chat clients can interact with eachother!
This is really cool!
Yeah, it's super neat letting everyone talk with everyone. Reminds me of the old IRC days! ❤️
bitlbee & Janus!
It seem idea of fedderating has spread even beyong feerated network. It's good thing. Sort of antimonopolisti.
What is this for someone who has no idea?
Two different, incompatible chat services exist - Discord and Matrix. This allows users of either service to post to a channel that has been connected on each side and messages are basically cross posted between the two, allowing users on each service to almost chat like they are all on the same channel despite being on two different chat services.
Thanks! That’s nifty!
Thinking of it as two different rooms in a party being connected so they can all be involved in the same conversation.
Looks like a bot that sends messages between through chat platforms
What are recommended apps for Matrix on Android?
I'm considering using it, but I don't know much about Matrix clients.
There's:
For now I stick with Element. It's just seems to be the most feature-rich of them.
I use the chat that is available in Thunderbird, my email client. It can connect to various types of chat (I dont remember them all) like Matrix.
Official client list https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/
i like cinny because it's the most discord like
I've personally been using Element and love it. I have a private matrix server for my family to use. Some of the members of the family have also loved FluffyChat.
Element is decent. Started playing around with Fluffy which also seems good.
Since it's been mentioned here but nobody's said anything else about it yet, Beeper is nice because it connects a bunch of different apps and everything syncs instantly between PC and mobile. I personally use it for Matrix, a couple of Discord servers, Messenger (for those friends who won't leave) and SMS.
Could the bridge be used by bots that work with Discord but not with Matrix? 🤔Bc there's quite a few of those, and me as a Matrix user can't have anything
Probably not this bridge. However, if you're comfortable setting up your own Matrix server, you can run a Matrix/Discord bridge that's essentially a self bot, and that does support interacting with most bots. After that, you can join the normal Discord and use your normal Matrix app to interact with the Discord server.
I don't think it'll work if you want to add a Discord bot to an existing Matrix chatroom, unless you make everyone bridge their Matrix accounts through your bridge.
Just don't try to do ANY friend management (adding friends is what triggers Discord's bot detection the most and will get you banned).
Nope not directly doable. As the messages are webhooks and most bots ignore those
I'd just want to be passively notified, not looking to control the bot
this might be a good place for me to reach out into the void
i'm interested in migrating two of my servers over to a matrix server, but i also want to back-copy all the old messages to the matrix client.
does a matrix bridge do all this copying? i.e, if i was to setup a discord-matrix bridge, allow messages to sync, and then disconnect the bridge, does the matrix server then have a copy of all the old messages? it doesn't have to match to the old users or anything, i'm just interested in having the content migrate over.
this is currently the biggest hurdle for me, because one of my servers is a private family discord, and i really don't want to have to explain to my mum that "all the content of the last 4 years is gone" 😅
Short answer: yes. Longer answer: I have a matrix server with a whatsapp bridge. If I remove the connection between WhatsApp and matrix, I can still see a the contacts and messages (of WhatsApp) in matrix.
If you have questions reach out, no problem.
But it will only bridge messages that are sent AFTER you created the bridge. It looks like he's asking to copy the complete history of those discord channels over to matrix.
i do have a question, sure
for the avoidance of doubt, you are saying that a matrix bridge can copy all previous messages over from a discord server, to a matrix server, even the messages made before the creation of the bridge? i.e, transfer the entire conversation log over to the matrix server, going back all the way to the first message in a channel?
actually, phrasing this another way, i just caught myself in the XY problem. what i need really, is a copy of a given discord server's content, onto a fresh matrix server. bridge or no bridge. is there any way to (broadly) copy and paste the content of a discord channel over to a matrix server, one time only. i know how to extract the discord content using the discord chat log tool, tokens etc. so, say i have one of those html files with the full chatlog and contents - how do i put that into a matrix server, and have it roughly readable? (if that's possible)
thank you for your patience, i have tried search engines for months with no clear answers
I don't think that's possible. At least the bridge software we used you can only link one matrix room to one discord channel. And the chat history from discord is not transferred either.
We're currently using https://t2bot.io/
ahh that's unfortunate. thanks anyway!
Hop on discord/matrix. We chillin tonight.
Discord should be abandoned as it's not in the fediverse and especially because it's not open source. This platform should never be used a an official place for one's own platform.
We are not a bastion of Open Source software. We use it yes, support it yes. There are plenty of things we use FOSS for but we have zero obligations to lock us down to only use FOSS. We use what is convenient and try to listen to the needs of our users.
There is lemmy.world, there is mastodon.world, there is a matrix space and synapse server. Then there is calckey.world a firefish server and I probably forget a few other things that are hosted by @ruud@lemmy.world.
And then yes, there is a discord server.
I think @ruud@lemmy.world and our infra team do PLENTY for the foss community by hosting all of these services, making them available and filing bug reports. They are even in touch with a lot of developers on different foss projects.
Bullshit. You should use the platform where most of your users are. And the users are on discord and do not give a single shit about open source.
When you’re constantly getting attacked and having issues, sometimes you need to do stuff you don’t want to do, just to be able to get stuff done.
In a perfect world I think devs wouldn’t want to use Discord, but it’s one of the only options that won’t be constantly taking down with attacks.
Plus Matrix is something that is still new to people and some users are more comfortable with Discord. Many users are still adjusting to the concept of Lemmy and how federation works. Fortunately this bridge will help the two groups connect to each other and maybe in the future we can move to only using Matrix.
