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Beeper was just acquired by Automattic, which has big plans for the future of messaging (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can we not use the beeper client with our own homeserver? That’s sad..

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can. Beeper supports Matrix and IRC.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sadly it is not possible, but yea, beeper host their own matrix server which is the only server the client connects to. At least we can use all the bridges with our own matrix server.

Edit: lol, that photo quality 🥲 it is a mail conversation with beeper:

Me: I have a matrix homeserver and want to use beeper client with it, is that possible?

Beeper: That is not possible at the moment.

Me: Oh, what a bummer.. But thank you very much for the fast reply! Is it planned that the client will work with selfhosted servers in the future, or is is it possible to selfhost a beeper-matrix-server?

Beeper: No plans for it at the moment. And negative.

So sad…

[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's almost no difference to a good Matrix client if you already selfhost the server and bridges. Most of the Beeper client's value is making it very easy to manage the bridges they host for you.