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It works great for me. No support for complex things: calls, message requests, and probably a few more. But most days I don't need to open any other app, and when someone asks me which network they can contact I honestly just don't care anymore. They all look exactly the same on my phone.
Cool, anyone got a referral?
I want to use Beeper, but funneling all my communications through hosted bridges (especially so Signal) is gonna be a nope, until they release more very deep technical and verifiable information about how on-device bridges work. I'm big on unified messaging from the libpurple days, but now 99% of my chats are in Signal so perhaps I am just not the target demographic for this.
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I switched from Android to iOS for the first time ever last month (was on Android since the very early 2010s), and I still use Beeper for everything but iMessages.
Curious how you're finding it so far? I mowed my Note20 Ultra in June of last year and replaced it with a 14 Pro Max then just last month went and swapped back to an S24 Ultra. I found Apple to be too restrictive. The OS level stuff was one thing but the app store lacking things like emulators or vape apps because "Apple said so" rubbed me the wrong way, whether I need them or not. Plus I like writing python on my ph…
I'm wondering if this app will eventually work with other (e.g. self-hosted) Matrix accounts or if it'll remain locked to Beeper's.
You can communicate with other self-hosted Matrix accounts already. I think that was always the case.
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This works?
It works great for me. No support for complex things: calls, message requests, and probably a few more. But most days I don't need to open any other app, and when someone asks me which network they can contact I honestly just don't care anymore. They all look exactly the same on my phone.
I want to use Beeper, but funneling all my communications through hosted bridges (especially so Signal) is gonna be a nope, until they release more very deep technical and verifiable information about how on-device bridges work. I'm big on unified messaging from the libpurple days, but now 99% of my chats are in Signal so perhaps I am just not the target demographic for this.
now if only I had a small android phone I could install this app on...
Have you looked into the Jelly Phone? I used mine for over a year until I destroyed the battery. Was definitely small and got used to it pretty quick
I want to try it, but I don't want to become dependent on it if it will transition to a paid product in the future (It's cool, but I probably wouldn't pay for it). How long will it remain free to use?
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I really hope it will be possible to configure the Beeper app to use self-hosted bridges vs using a separate Matrix client. Having the features and polish of the first party app, but with a user-controlled backend (like how Bitwarden does it) would be great. BTW, I have a Pebble on my wrist right now :)
That's exactly what our bridge-manager repo allows you to do. Self-host the bridges yourself, use the Beeper client app.