cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14092066
I’ve never heard of Beeper.
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.
Beeper is a service, which offers matrix, matrix bridges for nearly any other service and a client to use them on nearly any hardware.
meaning you can use your existing messaging client to talk to people on other messaging clients? like the fediverse?
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.
kinda like trillian in the olden days… not sure all them proprietary services are gonna let 'em use their platforms though.
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 😉
