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Beeper was also acquired by Automattic
Beeper was also acquired by Automattic
The app itself is very polished and really an excellent Matrix client.
Unfortunately these 3rd parties make it abundantly clear that they DO NOT want you using their services this way, and that ruins it. From Apple “patching” the iMessage workaround to Meta logging Beeper’s server out of my accounts (Facebook, IG and WhatsApp) every couple of days and giving me warnings about “automated activity on your account” and threatening to “permanently disable” it, I just got tired of it. It’s not worth it.
If you use it for something like Signal you’re essentially destroying most of its privacy and security features for convenience.
Also I have no idea what their business model is. They’ve waffled on it so many times at this point.
It’s a nice idea but was never going to and will never work as advertised.
They mention several times the end-goal being switching users directly to Matrix, which is admirable.
Also there are a lot of misleading statements in this blog.
Nothing will happen. Apple patched a vulnerability that allowed users to hack into Apple servers. Apple has since announced RCS compatibility which will be the end of their compliance, and honestly is fair.
There’s no reason to believe that’s true. These are not necessarily features of RCS and Apple will likely do the absolute bare minimum.
Beeper does not support native RCS. They support a Matrix bridge to Google Messages, which supports RCS. Again, dependent on third parties.