WhatsApp was build upon XMPP protocol. You can look into XMPP clients.
Besides that WhatsApp is not the way to communicate anyway. Normies use it because it is put up on their face and considered to be widely acceptable among them, while rhey don’t understand how privacy invading it is.
About ten years ago I used WhatsApp+ which had unheard of features like rounded profile pictures. At some point they banned me for a day, then it worked again until they banned for 3 days and after a ban of two weeks I finally gave up.
Nowadays it’d be still great if there were patches to e.g. schedule messages like Signal does, but imo there isn’t much missing anymore.
You have only one UI for all text chats, no need to remember on which app you talked with your cousin and on which app you talked with your friend. All of them are in this one app.
About the downvotes, this is not the first time that has happened. I have been repeatedly getting downvoted on some of the tech or related communities on Lemmy instances recently for completely innocuous comments. Since I am on kbin, they don’t impact me in anyway, but I have been puzzled about it. The only explanation I can come up with is something I wrote at some point offended someone and they are just down voting whatever post they see of mine with multiple accounts.
Is that even safe? I looked it up and it looks sketchy and saw lots of clone websites. Nothing mentioned with regards to privacy. Needless to say it is probably closed-source as well.
I trust the modder more than I’m willing to trust Facebook, if that answers your question. As for the clone sites, there was some fuss with imposters. this is the legit one, in case you wanted it.
Meta is really “protecting” their apps integrity and APIs. Tried many Instagram mods and got banned on all of them. Because WhatsApp is now in Meta’s hands they have same policy for WhatsApp probably never tried but if you don’t want to get banned don’t try mods, at least not at your main account.
Yeah I heard about it but it hasn’t been updated from 11/01 so does it work I mean you haven’t been banned by Facebook? Before I tried AeroInsta but after few minutes of using I’ve got banned.
It’s not on the play store, you either host your own matrix server, sign up for the wait list on beeper.com or find a public matrix server that runs a WhatsApp bridge anyone can use
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.
WhatsApp was build upon XMPP protocol. You can look into XMPP clients.
Besides that WhatsApp is not the way to communicate anyway. Normies use it because it is put up on their face and considered to be widely acceptable among them, while rhey don’t understand how privacy invading it is.
That answers nothing of what the OP asked
what? i don’t think that works.
XMPP? It works.
I meant logging into WhatsApp with an XMPP client doesn’t work.
Well ofcourse. WhatsApp works on a propriatary network where they store all your chats
About ten years ago I used WhatsApp+ which had unheard of features like rounded profile pictures. At some point they banned me for a day, then it worked again until they banned for 3 days and after a ban of two weeks I finally gave up.
Nowadays it’d be still great if there were patches to e.g. schedule messages like Signal does, but imo there isn’t much missing anymore.
I’ve used GBWhatsapp, WhatsApp+ etc. before. They’re banning modded apps.
And not to mention that these apps are sketchy as fuck and afaik are not open-source like the ones OP listed
Oh, OK. That makes sense. Thank you
I’m also one of those who use a matrix bridge for WhatsApp and never see the real app only use it with Element.
What’s the benefit with a bridge?
You have only one UI for all text chats, no need to remember on which app you talked with your cousin and on which app you talked with your friend. All of them are in this one app.
Never thought of this possibility. This is really interesting.
It’s also nice because you only need one messenger for WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal combined.
Plus all of those chats are searchable and backed up in one single location
Not very familiar with using Matrix bridges, can they handle WhatsApp calls? (Not asking about Signal because I would like to keep using it)
I’ll try and report back
Edit: It does not seem to work. Incoming Calls only send a text message “incoming call”
Okay, so you will get a notification that there was a call but can’t really attend it. That’s still pretty neat!
It’s possibile by implementing also a turn server like this on your synapse (or whatever server you are using)
Not sure why you are getting the downvotes, Matrix is really an underated app.
Yes, it definitely seem underrated.
About the downvotes, this is not the first time that has happened. I have been repeatedly getting downvoted on some of the tech or related communities on Lemmy instances recently for completely innocuous comments. Since I am on kbin, they don’t impact me in anyway, but I have been puzzled about it. The only explanation I can come up with is something I wrote at some point offended someone and they are just down voting whatever post they see of mine with multiple accounts.
Happened to me too I think when I engage with lemmy.world
Huh, I wonder if there are downvoting bots set up by trolls then…
Yeah this is weird.
I’ve been using GBWhatsapp by Fouadmods for years now. Works great for me.
Is that even safe? I looked it up and it looks sketchy and saw lots of clone websites. Nothing mentioned with regards to privacy. Needless to say it is probably closed-source as well.
I trust the modder more than I’m willing to trust Facebook, if that answers your question. As for the clone sites, there was some fuss with imposters. this is the legit one, in case you wanted it.
Is there a github repo for this project? Is it open source?
Not to my knowledge.
Meta is really “protecting” their apps integrity and APIs. Tried many Instagram mods and got banned on all of them. Because WhatsApp is now in Meta’s hands they have same policy for WhatsApp probably never tried but if you don’t want to get banned don’t try mods, at least not at your main account.
@Lobo6780
@Unbeelievable
Instander is a good insta alternative and it self updates and adds functionality. Give it a shot it’s a great app https://thedise.me/instander/
Agreed but Aeroinsta is more up-to-date and the pitch black theme is probably made (no hard to read text)
it’s been owned by Facebook/Meta for almost a decade, so I’m not sure it warrants using “now”.
Instander has been working fine for me for a few years you can try it out
I’m curious, does it allow browsing without an account ?
I have used something called barinsta in the past, but it is no longer working.
No it doesn’t
Yeah I heard about it but it hasn’t been updated from 11/01 so does it work I mean you haven’t been banned by Facebook? Before I tried AeroInsta but after few minutes of using I’ve got banned.
Yep not banned
I’ve been using it for years and not been banned.
There are many, you might wanna check Universal WhatsApp Mods By RBMods
Would like a WhatsApp mod which has stories disabled.
[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]
What kind of customisations have you done?? 😳
[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]
Does it support audio messages? or live location?
Seems great to me that it doesnt support calls :)
Live location isn’t supported. Audio messages work though.
[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]
Ty,
will still try and check it out
How does one go about to connect whatsapp to matrix and send msgs via it? Is there an article that I can read up on?
[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]
I’m fairly certain the whatsapp matrix bridge supports end to bridge encryption
[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]
search for mautrix whatsapp (not a typo)
can you provide a playstore like for that? i searched but didn’t get it from the results.
Mautrix whatsapp
It’s not on the play store, you either host your own matrix server, sign up for the wait list on beeper.com or find a public matrix server that runs a WhatsApp bridge anyone can use