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1·2 years agoTo add insult to injury, most modern protocols also forbid, by their ToS, the use of alternative clients (which very much includes bridges), and to the best of my knowledge WhatsApp, Signal and Discord will eventually suspend your account on this basis.
Good thing that I’m in the EU and the big chat platforms will be forced to open up their API to third-party clients soon with the DMA.
But from my point of view bridging with matrix works well and I have all my chats in one place. And for me that is the only reason I’m sticking with matrix as only one other person I know is using matrix directly. While it would be ideal to get everyone on one decentralized chat platform that is also rather unrealistic… so I’m doing my part using Matrix and getting friends on it when it makes sense but not actively trying to get people on there that don’t have a good reason to use it. And using XMPP mostly sounds like it is just around longer but not that much better, so switching now dosen’t seem to make sense.
I’m selfhosting a Matrix server and have all my Chats from other apps also bridged to there. For just text chat I don’t feel like Matrix is missing anything, the thing preventing me from getting my not so technically minded friends on it is the missing support for good group voice chat.
It XMPP better for group VC? Is the option available to bridge Messenger like Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, iMessage to XMPP?
I’m not aware of any Website that goes into detail. There are however books that go into detail of how Windows works internally: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/resources/windows-internals
In general to poke around in Windows the sysinternals tools distributed by Microsoft are great. The developer of the Sysinternals tools also gave some talks going through how he uses the tools to debug problems that occurred. Those are freely available on the web.
But in general it is was harder to find information about Windows, than linux. Most of the time when it comes to a problem with Windows a solution is posted, that dosen’t explain how the solution was discovered. I found with Linux there is often more information given. And obviously with Linux you can just look at the code in the Kernel if you need to dig deep, with Windows that is not an option.