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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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What do you think about beeper? (www.beeper.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It promises to be the one-in-all chatting app, based on matrix, providing compatibility to other apps (Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp etc.) through bridges.

So what do you think, from a privacy point of view and also user friendliness on the other hand?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

“For example, if you send a message from Beeper to a friend on WhatsApp, the message is encrypted on your Beeper client, sent to the Beeper web service, which decrypts and re-encrypts the message with WhatsApp's proprietary encryption protocol.”

So, not really end to end for most common use-cases.

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

Yeah I got my invite last week. But between the time it was announced and looking into it, I’ve balked and won’t use it.

That said I’m considering self hosting

https://github.com/beeper/self-host