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This uses Matrix bridging and is open source https://www.beeper.com
Looks like a pidgin for mobile! Cool
This is too awesome to be true 😮
I'm trying it immediately! THANKS!!
It looks very cool imho. If you care a whole lot about privacy and your rights, make sure to go through their TOS and PP. I do hope that self hosting will become much easier in the future so that more people can use such interesting solutions.
It costs money though
Yes! But the OP seemed kind of desperate and self hosting Matrix server with a FB bridge also costs money, and time and needs some skills.
yep yep it does
"Thanks for signing up for Beeper! We have had a record number of people interested in using Beeper. Our focus is on providing the best possible chat experience for our users. In practice this means that we are working our way through the list one-by-one and on-boarding users as fast as possible. You are safely in line and we will keep you updated as we progress through the list."
How does it work??? Didn't understand
Beeper works with Matrix bridges. The Matrix protocol is afaik designed with the idea to be able to talk to all kind of other protocols (hence the name Matrix probably). For example Matrix-IRC bridges have existed for a few years now I think.