Advertise and explain how to use the bridges hosted on matrix.org

[tadzik]

Bridges are the big selling point to many, and yet from the information included on matrix.org it may be hard to learn that they're actually running on the matrix.org homeserver, or figure out how to use them. Today there was a user on HQ that was sure that XMPP bridge is not supported. Looking at the website, I don't blame them:

https://matrix.org/bridges/#libpurple doesn't even mention XMPP, even though this is what we use it for.

If you dig up https://matrix.org/docs/projects/bridge/matrix-bifrost it mentions XMPP it mentions it as an open source project available on Github, but unless you go there and dig up https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-bifrost/wiki/Address-syntax you won't even know that it's running on Matrix org.

This creates the perception, in some, that Matrix talks a lot about bridging and interoperability but doesn't do much about it.

Ideally there'd be a place on matrix.org that lists all the bridges, first party or not, reachable on matrix.org and basic instructions on how to use them.

[MadLittleMods]

Related to #1055

[uhoreg]

related to/dup of #28

[thibaultamartin]

Now the bridges page lists all the platforms we can bridge to: https://matrix.turbo.fish/ecosystem/bridges/

Clicking on a platform lists all the known implementations for this platform, for example: https://matrix.turbo.fish/ecosystem/bridges/telegram/

Would it make sense to add a list of known public instances for each implementation as well?

[domestomas]

Generally, I would appreciate on the "Bridges" site apart from list of bridges some general info about bridges. If I want to use a bridge, what should I do? I believe the short answer is that I basically need my own homeserver, as the bridge running there must be able to log in to another service (i.e. fb messenger) in my name. If that is true, it means that bridges are generally inaccessible to most common people. But I am really not sure this answer is correct, information of this kind on the old web page looked quite complicated to me and on the new one it seems completely missing.

[thibaultamartin]

Very good point, bridges can seem a bit impenetrable as of now. https://matrix.turbo.fish/ecosystem/bridges/ shows a preview of what implementations can be used for each platform as well as the privileges required to run them.

This is good for community managers or enterprise administrators, but not that great for the general public who needs things closer to https://t2bot.io/telegram/ and https://t2bot.io/discord/