How Beeper is trying to make sense of all your messaging apps
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There are too many messaging apps. But things could get better.
  • loki@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    Beeper sets a good premise. Talk to your friends without ever bugging them about hopping over to a completely new app. You might convert some, but not most.

    There’s a downside to E2EE on bridged chats but if that’s not acceptable within your threat model then you wouldn’t be using it in the first place.

    • ijeff@lemdro.idOPMEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      They are. Anyone with an account can invite you to skip the waitlist.

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Alas, neither the waitlist reaching me months later, nor meeting someone willing to send an invite have occurred lol.

        • fraydabson@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Have you checked the pinned thread on Reddit? I know we mainly hate Reddit here but I’ve seen people having luck.

  • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.mlEnglish
    85·
    9 months ago

    there are exactly three messaging apps: Signal, Matrix/Element/SMS or RCS. anyone that wants to reach out has those options. I’ve had a lot of Signal converts.

    • ijeff@lemdro.idOPMEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      The neat thing is that Beeper is natively a Matrix app with bridges to the other services.

      • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Is Beeper open source? If not, I’m unfortunately unable to extend my trust to yet another 3rd party with unverifiable code.

        • ijeff@lemdro.idOPMEnglish
          7·
          9 months ago

          Their client is a closed source fork of Element, but you can use Element and other Matrix clients instead. Likewise, the bridges are open-source and you can self-host it all.

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      61·
      9 months ago

      Replace RCS with XMPP, one is in practice only available through Google’s approval while XMPP is a standard created by the same organization that create IP (Internet) and SMTP (Email).

      • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        Appreciate the comment. I would like to do that but RCS is basically the default “SMS” option on Android making it broadly available to nearly half my contacts, the onboarding is basically “text me”, whereas I’d have to provide some sort of instruction if I wanted to onboard anyone onto XMPP, in addition to recommending a good client depending on what OS they’re running.