That’s very cool!
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Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 week ago
I’ve written a Signal bot that listens for messages from my wife and me. It’s for sharing pictures of our daughter with a small list of people that want baby pics. It takes the images we send it get blurred and sent as a preview, with an unblurred version sent as a “view once” image. Each blurred image contains an ID so that recipients can request the images again.
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 week ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Does the signal bot need its own phone number?
Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 week ago
Yep. I keep an old phone for the bot to be a linked device.
moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 1 week ago
God that sucks.
Why not use SimpleX or Wire or Matrix?
Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 week ago
What would be the advantage?
kossa@feddit.org 1 week ago
I think I read somewhere, that Signal just recently allowed registration without phone number (“just” a spare device and a one-time payment, it’s in Android Beta, apparently), so that’ll work now.