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GitHub - beeper/bridge-manager: A tool for running self-hosted bridges with the Beeper Matrix server. (github.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://www.beeper.com/ It is the bees knees.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's great. Been using it for years. Even wrote my own bridge that integrates beautifully with their first party ones.

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

What did you write a bridge for? Like what service did you connect to?

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

Nextcloud Talk

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

Neat!

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

Did you release the code publicly?

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

No. It's a weekend job that implements only the tiny subset of features I care about.

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

Fair enough

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Beeper sucks. Here's why:

  1. You increase your attack surface and downgrade your security to the level of Matrix, which is not that great and collects pretty much all of the metadata.

  2. These companies do not want you using their services this way. For that reason they are always trying to break the bridges and in my case constantly logging you out of your account and threatening to delete it due to "suspicious activity".

  3. They lie about supporting SMS and RCS, instead opting to Bridge to Google Messenger, another proprietary 3rd party service.