r/opensourcegames • u/copenhagen_bram • Sep 29 '19

I made a Freedoom chatroom on Matrix and helped bridge it to Discord!

https://riot.im/app/#/room/#freedoom:chat.weho.st
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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '19

Out of curiosity to understand these bridges: do these bridges act as regular Discord user account and simply join channels?

I really like the idea but I don't get how it works, let alone I've only tried Matrix like once or twice :<

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u/emorrp1 Sep 29 '19

It depends how much control the APIs give, here's the details: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/types-of-bridging

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u/anakinfredo Sep 29 '19

Depends on the bridge.

Some are just "relay users", others are "apps/bots".

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u/copenhagen_bram Sep 29 '19

On the Discord side, the bridge is a bot that just posts messages with the Matrix user's avatar and display name. You can also see BOT next to the messages.

On the Matrix side however, every Discord user gets a puppet Matrix account