Beeper
blog.beeper.com
Beeper has been acquired! The team has joined Automattic and will continue to build Beeper.

Automattic has added Beeper to their project roster that includes Wordpress, WooCommerce, Penpot and more.

As an open source project based on Matrix, with packages available for Linux… I think this ensures the future for a viable messaging app on our platform of choice.

This will further augment the use of Matrix, which may not be the best protocol for the job as others have commented in the past, but it’s better than proprietary alternatives, and a great starting point.

  • ciphershort@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Is Beeper secure? I like the idea of having all of my messaging in one app, but I’m not sure about giving it my login details for Signal, Google, etc.

    • drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      It is not open source, so effectively no. It uses bridges which are open source and you can host them yourself and completely sidestep Beepers closed-source client.

      • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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        7 months ago

        I’ve tried out the closed source version, and I don’t mind that part so much as all my messages apparently being unencrypted on their server

      • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Those bridges, do they actually block META from tracking what I do? I dont really mind them eves dropping but the constant tracking all the time was the reason why I dont have facebook

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 months ago

      They are working on on-device bridging but currently all bridging is happening on their servers with reencrypting all messages. So you have to trust them handing all your messages.

      Even services using same protocol for encrypting like Signal protocol or MLS can have incompatible implementations, so just passing messages with reencrypting or on-device bridge is not possible currently.

        • Noa Himesaka@lemmy.funami.tech
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          7 months ago

          Well, the bridges are open-source so you can just go and see what they do.

          EDIT: Seems like you’re talking about the client app. Nevermind. It would be nice if it was open-source.

    • shrugal@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      Self hosting their bridges is really simple, if you have a device to run the Docker containers on. That way you don’t have to give them your logins, all they get to see are encrypted Matrix messages.