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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.
100% agree on these complaints haha, but it's finally out of private invites so thought I'd invite some people
Unfortunetly not FOSS :/
They are the ones mostly developing all the foss bridges (for Signal,Telegram etc).
Not really mad that they are keeping some of their product closed.
Still giving us selfhosting folks the tools we need.
I'm thankful for their commision to overall ecosystem, but the app itself it still propietary and should be avoided.
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
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.
Much appreciated!
Worked for me, too. Thanks friendly stranger :)
Anyone got any more of them referral codes? If not, that's cool. I can wait the 8000 plus lineup lol
This one is also dead now it seems.
within minutes of linking my Facebook I got an alert that someone signed into my account from a pixel in California 🫥
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.
If someone else has another invite code I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks :)
Is this another half-solution for Discord or is it against Discord TOS and can get you banned? Either it only works in group chats or it's against their TOS. Which is it?
I'm pretty sure beeper is against TOS if they're using the Matrix bridge I think they're using.
Beeper is using its own bridge.
Still a third party client, Discord doesn't enforce it properly (or at least when I still used it) so it probably won't happen but they could definitely ban you for it.
Fair point, yeah.
I just started using it and this one app already changed my life, whole family friends in one app, whatsapp fb messenger discord twitter imessage on android, greatest idea i ever seen.