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.

      • Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        34
        ·
        1 year ago

        You have no way of verifying that the client is only doing what it claims. The Open Source community is highly suspicious of proprietary software, doubly so when it’s based off of Open Source code.

        If youre okay with that then no worries, but ofr myself and many others it’s an absolute deal breaker.

        • cerothem@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          1 year ago

          To be fair, the client they provide to make bridging more accessible is proprietary, however you can fire up a fresh copy of element and connect it if you want and just use the text interface.

          The clients are closed so that they have something to sell and profit. Not everyone can afford to give their time away for free.

          • noodlejetski@geddit.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            1 year ago

            you can fire up a fresh copy of element and connect it if you want

            you kind of omitted the part where you have to host your own Matrix server in order to benefit from the bridges.

            • cerothem@lemmy.ca
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              1 year ago

              Is there a reason you couldn’t use either use a self hosted or the public hosted copy of element or an Android/iOS app and connect it directly to the beeper synapse/dendrite server?

              Their clients are just closed forks of element anyways.

          • Irina@beehaw.org
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            10
            ·
            1 year ago

            If you know the team, then that’s a pretty good reason to trust them. Only works if you know the team, though.

          • jarfil@beehaw.org
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            That’s fine… for you, right now.

            But I (and probably most users) don’t know them, over time people come and go, some even change who they are, businesses get sold. Only open source persists.

      • ghostermonster@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        1 year ago

        You cannot see how the app works, cannot change how it works, cannot tell anyone how it works…

        Huge deal for something as basic and important as interpersonal communication.