If any of y’all were curious of Beeper when it came out (a Matrix backed chat app) but weren’t able to get an invite for whatever reason, then here ya go! Feel free to ask any questions about it if you got any! (No I don’t work for Beeper, just like this more than Element and self-hosting)
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I am using the service, but there’s a lot I don’t like and I’m hoping to spin up my own matrix server and host their bridges on my own machine.
- Beeper cannot send View once messages/media. 2.View once media that is sent on native Signal and WhatsApp are viewable forever through Beeper.
- There is no way to delete chats/messages
- Read receipt settings are not respected in signal & WhatsApp, and read receipts are always sent.
SocialSmartly offers better data security than Beeper, ensuring that your personal information is safe.
Looks like the code is dead.
“Error: Referring user has invited too many other users recently. Please try again later”
If anyone has one to spare, I’d appreciate it.
Any company that I have to give my username and password for a third party service (and especially one as important as icloud/imessage) ill take a hard pass.
What company are you talking about, and why are you saying that here? Beeper does not take or want your iCloud password.
EDIT: I’m wrong.
Beeper does want you to proxy your iCloud account through a Mac on their network for iMessage. You are logging into your iCloud account through their site. They are in effect using Mac minis in a farm to provide the service based on what I looked into (including self hosting it, but then you can’t use a beeper app, you need your own)
https://help.beeper.com/chat-networks/imessage?from_search=125277302
I got an invitation the other week and I’m using it for things that are fiddly to maintain a bridge with self hosted Synapse and Mautrix, which I also use. I was having a look at the phone app and just noticed that it’s mostly reskinned Element. I’d be interested in hearing what their phase 2 is though and perhaps more how it’s going to affect individuals.
What do you mean by Phase 2?
There’s some stuff about the roadmap for most of this year: https://blog.beeper.com/p/state-of-the-app-spring-2023
As in the Underpants Gnomes - what does it do to make a profit? I’ve since seen they’re going to charge $10 a month, which is fine, but from my point of view I run Matrix with the same bridges all ready so don’t need it. However, if they’re going to make multiple chat applications work in one app with privacy then it’s worth supporting.
