Beeper
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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.

  • 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.