@White-Master the thing I need to get the bridge turned on is the Telegram channel id. One way for me to get that is to have some activity in the Telegram channel and then dig through the bot's debug logs (https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/wiki/Section-Telegram-%28basic%29#generate-events--output).

The easiest thing might be for you to find me on irc (https://web.libera.chat/#wikimedia-cloud) and then I can watch the logs while you send a message in the Telegram channel to get the magic number.

Channel id is -1001369595641

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2021-06-15T23:44:34Z] <wm-bot> <bd808> Adding #wikimedia-sp bridge (T283308)

In T283308#7158751, @bd808 wrote:

Channel id is -1001369595641

No, it's is actually "-1001173892862"

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2021-06-15T23:52:38Z] <wm-bot> <bd808> Adding #wikimedia-sp bridge (T283308) (try #2)