WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires multi-service messaging app Beeper for $125M | TechCrunch
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The deal, which was for $125 million according to sources close to the matter, is Automattic's second acquisition of a cross-platform messaging solution.
    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      386·
      7 months ago

      That’s the one that was able to bridge iMessage to Matrix for about 5 minutes until Apple shut them down to defend their walled garden and anticompetitive behaviour.

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      7 months ago

      Beeper is a service, which offers matrix, matrix bridges for nearly any other service and a client to use them on nearly any hardware.

      • venusaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        meaning you can use your existing messaging client to talk to people on other messaging clients? like the fediverse?

        • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          No, you use the beeper messenger to talk to all other messaging clients. But you can make ultimate multi service groups by having puppet accounts on all the services which relay messages from the other services.

          • venusaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            that sounds pretty cool. is that an integration that could easily be implemented by other messaging platforms, or something proprietary to Beeper? meaning, could other platforms do this, but they just don’t want to so you’ll only use their platform?

            • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
              6·
              7 months ago

              Matrix is a opensource, decentralized protocol for encrypted messaging. You can host your own server or use your server of choice (generally matrix.org server) and there are many clients for nearly all platforms (there are webapps as well)

              I personally have never tested beeper, so I can’t give you a reason review but I have an account at a friends matrix server. I mostly use element as the client, but there is as well fluffyChat which invests more in design and less in features.

              From what I heard, running the server yourself isn’t that trivial according to my friend, but I’m positive that you would work it out with some time

              The bridges beeper uses to interact with other services are opensource as well

              • venusaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                7 months ago

                dope thanks! most people i text with use iMessage so until they play nicely with these servers, I probably won’t be making the move. so i guess never haha.

                • dave@hal9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  7 months ago

                  I use it to bridge Whatsapp, SMS, signal, and to receive any incoming messages on my inactive Instagram and Facebook Messenger accounts ( sometimes people contact me there). It’s a pretty nice client app, I use it on desktop too. I guess I never think about iMessage until I see reactions coming in as text haha

  • dingdongitsabear@lemmy.mlEnglish
    91·
    7 months ago

    kinda like trillian in the olden days… not sure all them proprietary services are gonna let 'em use their platforms though.

    • ThePrivacyPolicy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      7 months ago

      If this takes off I figure it’s only a matter of time until services start blocking them. What’s changed between the old days of Trillian and now is that capitalism has advanced much further along and these companies have too much to lose by not being able to data harvest right in their own apps now 😉