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In today's article we want to talk to you about Ferdi, a cross-platform application that will allow you to combine all your favorite messaging services in one application! If you haven't understood anything, we'll tell you more clearly: it's a program to use multiple apps at the same time, for example Skype, Telegram, Whatsapp and also Discord!
Ferdi has closed its doors. You can continue to use it self-hosted or try one of the alternatives like Ferdium (based on Ferdi), Rambox or Hamsket.
How does he manage to do this cool and comfortable thing? Much simpler than you might imagine. Let's try to explain it in a super simple way: in reality it is just a web Browsers designed specifically to be able to use the web versions of many applications!
This greatly facilitates any complications that may arise with the use of closed applications such as Facebook Messenger, Skype And Whatsapp for example. In fact, you cannot use Skype on any application other than it Skype. But you can use it Skype Web. And here comes the brilliant intuition of the developers.
In fact, any application with its own web version can potentially run on this program.
So be careful: there are not only messaging apps, in fact over time many interesting applications have been added such as: Carnet, Google Drive, Mastodon, Nextdoor, Notion, Standard Notes and very many indeed other.
Ferdi vs Franz
Not everyone sees things favorably Ferdi but, why? Ferdi it's clearly an application Open source 1 and it's a Fork of the most famous Franz. Franz However, it only offers 3 free services and to have them all you have to spend €6 per month 2. Franz but it is also in Apache 2.0 license, a very free license that allows reuse.
So who created Ferdi he wasn't happy with the turn Franz had lost with paid content 3. So he took the code of Franz (He actually did one Fork) and removed the paid premium limits by offering them for free. And also offering much more 4.
For some this is a bit of a dirty operation, but when you release code with a similar license it is normal and something similar can happen. Among other things, we are only talking about comments found online that complain about this incorrectness, we are not aware of any controversies between the developers of the projects.
Ferdi or Franz Whatever it is, we find it to be a really intelligent application that can be very useful. You can use Ferdi on Windows, on macOS and obviously also up Linux.
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ALTERNATIVES TO FERDI
- Many of you have suggested another one Fork Of Franz called Rambox.
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