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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.