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Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

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[–] scott@lem.free.as 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I use Matrix with a WhatsApp bridge. Best of both worlds.

[–] mattreb@feddit.it 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which bridge do you use? do you self-host it?

[–] scott@lem.free.as 3 points 1 month ago

mautrix-whatsapp and, yes, self-hosted.

[–] sga@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Is there any way i can host the whatsapp bridge but not the matrix instance itself, or something simpler. Even then, it does not really make my situation better. It would be adding one more layer between me and whatsapp, but not much more. As I understand, bridges help when you have multiple platforms, and you want to have one way to access them all, for me, only benefit would be the client would be free