Hey everyone, I’ve got a software suggestion for all you hatters of closed gardens. It’s basically an all-in-one messenger. It will aggregate multiple messengers on android (whatsapp, facebook messenger, sms, rcs, discord, signal) including imessage! NO MORE GREEN BUBBLES!!! Best part (other than imessage), they’re going to keep it free for as long as they can. (at least that’s the vibe I’m getting from the discord server). This app looks so freaking cool! Currently they’ve just got it open to some alpha testers but they will start releasing it to beta list soon. Let me just say, the alpha’s screenshots of imessage are looking very nice. You can use this link to sign up for the beta https://sunbirdapp.com/?r=jVmdy
Update: Ok everyone, as far as my legitometer is a curate, they’ve got a ten. I got into the alpha testing and have been successfully sending imessages to people for a couple days now. This is incredibly impressive and I am so looking forward to its completion.
Yeah I find no mention of being Libre on their website. It looks like “just another” proprietary message app. The concept is interesting but if it’s proprietary then it’s just another garbage (and this nonsense about green and blue bubbles is ridiculous of course).
I say this as someone who could use a “unified messenger” like Pidgin in the old days. I currently use some set up with bitlbee+libpurple+quasselserver running on a personal server. It would be nice to eliminate all those middlemen and just have a libpurple based application that can run locally or on a server. I suspect if they’re advertising support for all those protocols then they’re probably using libpurple behind the scenes anyway.