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Not into Discord? Now we're bridged to Matrix and Slack!

Ever since dabbling in the "fediverse" with Mastodon, I've been thinking about how to archive ("liberate") our community chat history from Discord, so that it's preserved in the event of a Discord "space-karen" event...

While Matrix is a powerful, open-source, federated group-chat protocol, its secret sauce is its ability bridge multiple isolated platforms together, so as to ensure cross-platform communication. For example, Matrix can bridge Discord and Slack, such that the same messages can appear in Discord, Matrix, and Slack:

Screenshot of bridge-ception

I'm planning a recipe re the (complex) implementation of a Matrix instance (and associated bridges) on Kubernetes, but in the interim, we now have:

Jump in and join the fun! 😁