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  • 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)


  • 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.










  • Pretty sure they already shared all that data with the feds. They can cross reference and calculate the DNA of almost every person in the US that has a family there. I guess it would be worse if a private company could do that too, but with Trump im not sure if thats even true anymore.

    The Nazis would have given everything for this tech.

    Veritasiums vid on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT18KJouHWg

    And a quote from the top comment

    “My biggest concern is health insurance. If you have someone’s DNA profile, and that gets into the wrong hands, or laws enacted, resulting in health insurance companies having access to knowing that this person has a proclivity to Parkinson’s, then rates could skyrocket. This is a massive privacy issue.”