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garth
Can anyone recommend a good IRC app for android?
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sech1
if you have a VPS, host
thelounge.chat
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sech1
works well on android, it even has push notifications
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garth
Does this have an android app in the App Store?
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garth
Oh it’s web based. Do the notifications depend on Google push services?
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daru
only used revolution irc from fdroid which works well and is privacy friendly if that's important
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mys
garth: if you use weechat you can connect to the process on your server with this:
f-droid.org/en/packages/com.ubergeek42.WeechatAndroid
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garth
I self host znc
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garth
I like revolution but the text isn’t as easy to read as I’d wish
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sech1
"Do the notifications depend on Google push services?" yes, it's google push from what I can see in the config
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apotheon
garth: The best IRC client for Android that I've used is Matrix, connecting via the Libera Chat IRC bridge.
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apotheon
I haven't tried WeeChat on Android, though. Maybe it's okay, too.
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apotheon
I'm not sure how something using Google services is privacy friendly.
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sech1
push notifications are opt in though
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sech1
and they're off by default
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apotheon
That's a positive, at least.
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sech1
plus it's open source
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garth
If it uses an open browser window, does that mean the push notifications are via my self hosted TheLounge setup, or do they route all pushes through google?
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garth
Oh I missed your response. Thanks
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garth
Apotheon: Matrix via Element app?
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farzat[m]
Wow you actually CAN join libera.chat channels from matrix
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farzat[m]
Interesting
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farzat
It is funny how element is one of the best IRC clients on Android eventhough it's a matrix client
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farzat
And weechat is one of the best matrix clients on desktop eventhough it is an IRC client
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farzat
Using libera.chat from matrix sure is tempting though
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farzat
You get the benefit of receiving messages even when you are not online
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farzat
And the read status is synced across devices
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farzat
But kinda bugs me the wrong way for some reason
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farzat
I don't like it not being native
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farzat
Also doesn't feel like the IRC way... idk... eventhough a week ago I hadn't used IRC in my life
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ndorf
real men IRC as follows: telnet irc.libera.chat 6667
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farzat[m]
Lol
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gingeropolous
the problem with PDFs is you can't burn them when your frustrated with paperwork
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apotheon
garth: Yeah, Element. Sorry. I keep thinking of it as Matrix, but that's the protocol.
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apotheon
farzat[m]: My experience is that WeeChat is awful as a "desktop" Matrix client, because plugin portability is kinda shitty (e.g. the Matrix plugin was broken on OpenBSD when I tried it) and there's evidently only one vi keybindings plugin . . . which blows.
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apotheon
farzat[m]: I only use Element for IRC on Android, though. I prefer irssi on my laptop.
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farzat[m]
apotheon: Wait so there is a client with proper vi bindings?
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apotheon
farzat: I've seen several vi-like keybinding plugins for irssi. The one I'm using was the first I found, and it works rather well -- much better than the single option I found for WeeChat.
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apotheon
farzat: Surprisingly, the Vimium C extension for Firefox also plays very well with the web Element client for Matrix.
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apotheon
In some ways, Vimium C works better with Element than with Firefox in general.
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apotheon
and it seem to work better on Firefox than on Chromium