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by _dmn7 846 days ago
I maintain a semi-popular project [1] with a support chat which is bridged between Matrix, Telegram, and Discord. The decision to bridge it to Discord was made having thought long and hard about it some time after reading this post.

My stance is that it is okay to use proprietary platforms as long as it does not negatively impact the users not willing to use them, i.e. all channels must be bridged to non-Discord, so that it does not "partition the community" in any way. Discord-specific features should be avoided to not affect the usability of users on Matrix. So far it works well and I get to basically have the cake and eat it too.

1. https://github.com/FreeLanguageTools/vocabsieve

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What are you using to bridge these three chat providers?
An Ansible playbook running on a relatively cheap hetzner box. In general bridges require you to self-host a homeserver. A federated homeserver will need 4GB of RAM at least and 8GB if you plan on joining large rooms. The playbook is controlled from a single config file and sets up all the bridges you need.

https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy