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Pidgin 3.0.0 Experimental 1 Announcement

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89 points rw_grim | 7 comments | 22 Nov 24 04:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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relyks ◴[22 Nov 24 06:28 UTC] No.42211603[source]▶
Am I reading this right? Is the only protocol being supported now the most recent version of IRC? Are there plans for others? Part of Pidgin's "calling card" has been its ability to support many different chat protocols. However, that's become difficult since most protocols have become walled gardens and harder to reverse engineer. I'd imagine supporting Matrix, XMPP, Signal, other protocols with open specifications, etc. would be a good idea
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1. yaomtc ◴[22 Nov 24 07:24 UTC] No.42211827[source]▶
Signal is open source but they only let the official builds connect to the official Signal servers
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2. Katzenmann ◴[22 Nov 24 07:55 UTC] No.42211953[source]▶
That's not correct. Alternative signal clients do exist. Axolotl: https://github.com/axolotl-chat/axolotl Flare: https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/flare
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3. lmm ◴[22 Nov 24 08:03 UTC] No.42211984[source]▶
Alternative clients do exist but OWS has a history of taking them down and/or making protocol changes to block them, similar to AIM back in the original days of Pidgin.
4. HeatrayEnjoyer ◴[22 Nov 24 08:55 UTC] No.42212215[source]▶
Those are unsanctioned
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5. actionfromafar ◴[22 Nov 24 11:19 UTC] No.42212892{3}[source]▶
Such an inflammable statement, let's sanction those then. :)
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6. arghwhat ◴[22 Nov 24 12:59 UTC] No.42213460{4}[source]▶
Unfortunately, whether or not a client is sanctioned for use on Signal-owned infrastructure is entirely up to the Signal organization, and they have been rather hostile to such clients.
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7. actionfromafar ◴[22 Nov 24 13:18 UTC] No.42213596{5}[source]▶
Sorry I was just making a joke about how sanction has a double meaning. :-)