last night, my pixel came! I flashed Graphene and I am now running it smoothly!

I am in the process of downloading apps and I have a question: I am interested in at least using discord on this device. It is absolutely one of my most used apps. On PC, I use legchord. Im a big fan. Is there something similar available for mobile? and I have a similar question for Whatsapp, and FB messenger (although those are less important)?

  • Mikina@programming.dev
    12·
    2 days ago

    I run my own Matrix server and just bridge Whatsapp, Messenger, Discord and Telegram to it. Element (a matrix client I’m using) Works without google services.

    The only catch is I have to have a second Play-services enabled profile on the phone, and sign in to whatsapp there every two weeks, so it keeps my Matrix session fresh.

    • someonesmall@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 day ago

      I did the same 4 years ago and it kinda worked, but often Telegram messages were not delivered (never saw them). Compatibility also broke for some messeger a few weeks later. It was not worth the time invest.

      • Mikina@programming.dev
        4·
        2 days ago

        Sure!

        I highly recommend using the matrix-ansible-docker-deploy. It has a pretty good documentation that should not give you much trouble, if you have at least very basic self-hosting experience (i.e can get a domain, a server, and set up SSH and firewall ports), and configuring it to do what you want is usually just adding a single config line into vars.yml when setting it up.

        Once you get to the configuration step in the quickstart, where you change a few rows, also take a look at the more in-depth configuration documentation, and scroll down to the chapter about configuring bridges/bridging other networks.

        For example, setting up a messanger bridge is literally just adding matrix_mautrix_meta_messenger_enabled: true into your vars.yml when you are setting it up.