I've created an xmpp based chat for ranters

xmpp:devrantchat@muc.xmpp.earth?join

why? because i can. maybe more people would start using xmpp this way, i dunno.

there should be some kind of super protocol to bridge all those chat protocols.

@antigermgerm hard to do with various proprietary things (like telegram and discord)

also it (a bot, a mirror thingie) would need an ability to impersonate someone, which is not really a good thing

@antigermgerm i've seen some implementation of a mirror bot between discord/telegram and matrix, but it was not very convenient as it was always posting from the bot's account/name (+original author tag) whenever anyone wrote something

chrome doesn't like it -- keeps reloading the page :/ Incognito too

FF works OK tho.

@netikras you can use any xmpp client to join whether web based or separate

@iiii fuck those, I'm talking about things like matrix / IRC / .... Things that are opened

@antigermgerm fair, but the issue of interconnection is still there, unless you develop and host some sort of hybrid server which operates matrix, xmpp and irc protocols in a common interconnected pool (with one tri-mirrored account for every user)

I can see xmpp and matrix being somewhat easy to connect as they have very common operation modes and the login could be literally identical (user@server), but IRC is probably less compatible to both. though i am much less familiar with IRC overall

Neat addition :)

@antigermgerm actually stumbled upon the existence of transports(xmpp) and bridges(matrix) which do exactly what we've talked about: connecting several messaging networks with duplex message forwarding