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WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires multi-service messaging app Beeper for $125M (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Beeper is a service, which offers matrix, matrix bridges for nearly any other service and a client to use them on nearly any hardware.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    meaning you can use your existing messaging client to talk to people on other messaging clients? like the fediverse?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, you use the beeper messenger to talk to all other messaging clients. But you can make ultimate multi service groups by having puppet accounts on all the services which relay messages from the other services.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    that sounds pretty cool. is that an integration that could easily be implemented by other messaging platforms, or something proprietary to Beeper? meaning, could other platforms do this, but they just don't want to so you'll only use their platform?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Matrix is a opensource, decentralized protocol for encrypted messaging. You can host your own server or use your server of choice (generally matrix.org server) and there are many clients for nearly all platforms (there are webapps as well)

    I personally have never tested beeper, so I can’t give you a reason review but I have an account at a friends matrix server. I mostly use element as the client, but there is as well fluffyChat which invests more in design and less in features.

    From what I heard, running the server yourself isn’t that trivial according to my friend, but I’m positive that you would work it out with some time

    The bridges beeper uses to interact with other services are opensource as well

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    dope thanks! most people i text with use iMessage so until they play nicely with these servers, I probably won't be making the move. so i guess never haha.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I use it to bridge Whatsapp, SMS, signal, and to receive any incoming messages on my inactive Instagram and Facebook Messenger accounts ( sometimes people contact me there). It's a pretty nice client app, I use it on desktop too. I guess I never think about iMessage until I see reactions coming in as text haha

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