Can snikket work with slidge gateway to bridge with other service like whatsapp, telegram?

[bidabrain]

Since snikket is based on XMPP, can it work with slidge (https://sr.ht/~nicoco/slidge/), which provide XMPP component modules to bridge many other IM.

[mwild1]

Hi! Technically, yes, it can. You can already use a Slidge instance that is hosted on another XMPP server, and that will work fine.

What's not currently supported is linking a Slidge instance directly to a Snikket instance. I do plan to quietly add support for this - though it's not necessarily something we plan to "officially" support and promote, because bridging to third-party networks is often unreliable, and we don't want people to depend on it as a core feature of Snikket. However for "power users" who understand what they are doing, I see no harm.

I'll leave this issue open to track progress on this.

[pepper3k]

why not add an option as part of advanced configuration, but just leave it off by default?
i think both goals would be accomplished this way