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[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 3 years ago (10 children)

You have no way of verifying that the client is only doing what it claims. The Open Source community is highly suspicious of proprietary software, doubly so when it's based off of Open Source code.

If youre okay with that then no worries, but ofr myself and many others it's an absolute deal breaker.

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[–] Cerothen@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

To be fair, the client they provide to make bridging more accessible is proprietary, however you can fire up a fresh copy of element and connect it if you want and just use the text interface.

The clients are closed so that they have something to sell and profit. Not everyone can afford to give their time away for free.

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[+] noodlejetski@geddit.social 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

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[–] Cerothen@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 years ago

Is there a reason you couldn't use either use a self hosted or the public hosted copy of element or an Android/iOS app and connect it directly to the beeper synapse/dendrite server?

Their clients are just closed forks of element anyways.

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[–] admin@beehaw.org [S] 4 points 3 years ago (6 children)

I'll take the risk knowing what I know about the Beeper people that I've been working with for over two years.

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[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 35 points 3 years ago

“I know these guys, trust me” is not a valid security assessment.

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[–] irasponsible@beehaw.org 10 points 3 years ago

If you know the team, then that's a pretty good reason to trust them. Only works if you know the team, though.

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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 3 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

That's fine... for you, right now.

But I (and probably most users) don't know them, over time people come and go, some even change who they are, businesses get sold. Only open source persists.