Matrix. You can use your beeper account on one of the more fully featured matrix clients such as Element X
true. Also: not commenting is easier than commenting
Many people have had easy success with Firefox by spoofing a “Chrome on Windows” user agent; you can use an extension like this one to do so.
Brad Murray has confirmed that all bridges will migrate away from being Matrix Appservices (“cloud bridges”), although the option to self-host your own version of beeper’s Appservices will remain an option
Brad Murray The current plan is for each client to send and receive with their own locally running connections, as opposed to letting one client use another client's connections to send in real time. We've had some pretty bad experiences with the old androidsms bridge with that architecture (since only your Android phone could send or receive a SMS).
Brad Murray We're still going to keep all our bridges open source and usable as Matrix Appservices, so if you want to use any Matrix client it's probably best to self-host against Beeper's homeserver (which we'll still support) or just run your own homeserver with our open source bridges
The bridges have always been open source. The clients were forked from element (which is open source) until recently when the Android app was rebuilt; the clients are not planned to be open source.
looks like Texts.com is merging with Beeper!
we’re merging with the Texts.com team (who were acquired by Automattic last year) to work together on our shared mission to build the best chat app on earth!
https://twitter.com/ericmigi/status/1763694753848479844
Built for speed and performance, with a complete redesign of the look and feel. You'll be able to try it for yourself soon…
A small sample of the many new features:
- OLED black theme
- Local message cache (all chats open instantly)
- Add/modify chat networks (no need to set up on desktop)
- Chat bubbling
- Tablet (multi-pane) mode
- Full message search (across all your chat networks)
He added, on Matrix, “Plan is to offer local bridges for all encrypted networks”
Although confirming this would be the case at launch, it was unclear specifically which networks are counted as encrypted.
Josh is an employee of Beeper; screenshot is from Beeper’s official chat room on matrix.
The Digital Markets Act comes into effect Wednesday, March 7, 2024
They’ve been preparing for a while: https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/25/ios-16-restrict-features-based-on-location/
it’s ok because you can edit your comments
that too
It would definitely be interesting to see this go to a major court. I imagine Apple will argue you’re free to do whatever you want on your device but that that does not extend to iMessage servers because those requires accepting pretty strict terms of service and will argue the users are breaking the EULA which they agreed to. Apple will argue they have the right to run their servers as they see fit.
We need new regulations around corporations that run these pseudo-commons platforms as “legit capitalist platforms.”
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It’s the same account though. You can have both clients or just element