• Mr Fish@lemmy.world
    22·
    4 days ago

    I don’t need to know German to read Meta AI, and agree with your enshittification assessment

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
        11·
        4 days ago

        YSK that these kinda bridges break E2EE. Your matrix homeserver will register as a whatsapp web client and forward the messages to you basically. It does work really well tho, with read receipts and media and everything.

        You can always self host the bridge ofcourse, then its not an issue. There are also plans to make local bridges that are basically just a headless whatsapp and matrix client in one app that talk to each other locally on your phone or a spare one.

        • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol
          1·
          4 days ago

          Does that mean I have to make my own E2EE or something? Can we do the same thing but for Telegram? I’m somewhat of a noob with this self-hosting thing, but it sounds like an exciting project. Where can I learn more?

          • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
            3·
            3 days ago

            I think self hosting this kinda thing is a pretty rough first project. At the moment you would also have to host your own matrix server to make this work.

            This is the code for hosting the bridge: https://github.com/mautrix/whatsapp

            There are also ones for signal, telegram, etc https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/

            The EU and the matrix foundation do a lot to push changes to make this interoperability more user friendly while maintaining E2EE, but its just not there yet.

            At some point the messages just need to be decrypted because the encryption algorithms all these apps use are different. So unless you directly add whatsapps or signals code into your app, this will have to happen elsewhere, like your or someone elses homeserver. If you dont care about that or if you trust that server, you can try to find a server that has an existing bridge running.

            tchncs.de for example is running a signal bridge https://tchncs.de/en/matrix/ (scroll down all the way)

            • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol
              2·
              3 days ago

              Thank you so much! I really appreciate your help! I’ll do some reading and add this to my list of projects. Maybe not in the near future, but definitely will.

  • Rooki@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 days ago

    Yep, and it has no option to hide/disable it. ( At least the button, the chat you can just “archive/delete” it )

    I already hat it so much even without interacting it. How much they push it.