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Universal Chat Application, Beeper, Will Be Available To Everyone (For Free) In A Matter Of Weeks. (blog.beeper.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was on the beta testing team and have been using Beeper for a little over two years now.

The convenience of having an application to house all of your chat networks is amazing.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not "everyone" uses Whatsapp though - I deleted mine after the Cambridge Analytica scandal and I know of a few others who also did so. As far as I know Whatsapp has still never changed their T&C to pass metadata upstream to Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is really region dependent. In Europe (or at least the Netherlands) almost everybody with a smartphone uses Whatsapp

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Talk to anyone in latin america, you must use whatsapp. There's no avoiding it. Some have tried Telegram a while ago, but most have reverted back to their usual whatsapp or facebook messenger. It's crazy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am in a different part of the world, and what you are saying is also true here for the older generation, while the younger one has no escape from Telegram.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can vouch for this in a small town of like 5k people in zacatecas, Mexico. Everyone including government and businesses uses WhatsApp. You see the logo with phone numbers all over the place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same experience in Argentina and Paraguay

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No, not regionally, as Whatsapp is probably used most. It is more individuals who decided not to use Facebook related products. Luckily, about 90% of my contacts are on Telegram. It's a bit sad that a proprietary product that leaks metadata could be so widely used. If there was going to be a single "one product" I'd rather prefer that to be an open standard protocol. Those protocols exist, but are not in broad use. But the W3C standard for social networking, really needs to also cover chat messengers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Now? Sure. Back then WhatsApp (before it was bought by Facebook) was replacing SMS nearly everywhere.