GitHub - beeper/bridge-manager: A tool for running self-hosted bridges with the Beeper Matrix server.
A tool for running self-hosted bridges with the Beeper Matrix server. - beeper/bridge-manager
https://www.beeper.com/ It is the bees knees.
first time I heard of it. why is it that, the knees? looks like a trillian type-of-thing. wants my email. only appimage available. oh it's electron crap. website isn't great, the copy is super-amateur hour. it got acquired by the wordpress lunatic. I mean, OK, but doesn't look very promising.
New desktop isn't electron, and of course it'll need your email, it's a chat app.
But the real cool thing is that it's a matrix client (that federates!) and all the bridges are open source, the company maintains most all of the bridges to corporate chat platforms.
I've been using it for over 6 months. There's a web app too if you don't use the self hosted button. Absolutely saves me from doom scrolling.
I don't see how them two things are related, my email has nothing to do with my chattings. it also doesn't explain why it's needed as it supposedly acts like a aggregator for the different protocols. upon signing up with a throwaway, it reveals itself as a matrix client and all them chat bridges are hosted by them. I have no idea as to their reputability, credibility, and longevity and at this point this is way too many things I need to get to the bottom of in order to consider it, so I'll check back in a year or two and see how it's holding up.
Beeper sucks. Here's why:
