[guardian-dev] how to fake federating with Facebook, Google, etc.

[Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb]

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On 23 May 2013, at 16:43, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> 
> I was just thinking about the early days of Jabber (XMPP), and how Jabber
> servers would handle logging in to AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, etc. for you, so that you
> could have a single account to reach all the networks.  libpurple came along
> and pushed all that to the client and that idea faded.
> 
> Now its time to bring it back!  We can have a single sign-on that allows you
> to chat with any proper XMPP service normally, but then also have a
> streamlined, oauth-based gateway to Facebook, Twitter, etc.
> 
> There is software to do this, like http://spectrum.im/, so mostly it'd be a
> matter coming up with a good config, and streamlining the user experience.


Hans I am interested in helping you with this, at least from the UX part.

I would love the option to do the following:

1. install my own xmpp server
2. add all my other IM service accounts to 
3. Use my jabber account to interact with all my other IM accounts.

I'd love to help however I can. 

Bernard

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