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  •  smeg   ( @smeg@feddit.uk ) English
    15•11 months ago

    What are people’s thoughts on Beeper as an app? I haven’t used an all-in-one messenger since Trillian back in the day, and while I do like not having to trust less secure/private apps like WhatsApp and Discord I don’t know if I’d trust it over Signal.

    •  Untold1707   ( @Untold1707@lemm.ee ) OPEnglish
      11•11 months ago

      Using an all-in-one messenger like Beeper will always be less secure than using standalone apps because it can introduce another vector for attack. That being said, I believe Beeper is trying their hardest to stop “middle manning” your messages. For example, in their newest Android client they have an on-device Signal bridge which means your messages never get sent to Beeper’s servers.

      Personally, I am happy with the convenience of Beeper. I use it every day with multiple IM services linked and it has saved me a lot of time. I also love that Beeper is built on matrix and that they’re contributing back to the open source community.

    •  Untold1707   ( @Untold1707@lemm.ee ) OPEnglish
      12•11 months ago

      Yes, Beeper’s apps are all closed source. But they do contribute a lot of their improvements back to the matrix community. For example, they’ve contributed quite a few performance improvements to the Synapse homeserver. They’re also involved in getting new features supported on matrix such as media captions.

    •  Untold1707   ( @Untold1707@lemm.ee ) OPEnglish
      9•11 months ago

      You can self host the bridges, but a lot of the “magic” happens on their clients. But if you’re okay with a bit of inconvenience in setting up and bridging services, self-hosting bridges is definitely possible using another matrix client.