I am looking for a solution to receive WhatsApp messages on my phone. I don’t want to install the WhatsApp app on my personal phone, but it is on my work phone and its mandatory for my job. I held out for a long time but it is necessary that I answer messages on there.

Beeper.com is enticing but it appears to have a lot of trackers for an app that claims it respects privacy.

What do you guys think?

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It is just a Matrix service, you can connect with any Matrix client.

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So I can sign up for beeper and connect through Element or another Matrix app of my choosing?

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Yes. You can also self-host their bridges.

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Would self hosting be possible (and fairly reliable) on a SBC?

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Pretty sure the beeper app is just a fork of element with added ui for interacting with different bridges.

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What password do you use?

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