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.

  • Chris Remington@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    They will be offering a premium subscription offer for more bells and whistles other than the free option…I don’t know anything about user betrayals conducted by Beeper.

        • Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          34·
          1 year ago

          You have no way of verifying that the client is only doing what it claims. The Open Source community is highly suspicious of proprietary software, doubly so when it’s based off of Open Source code.

          If youre okay with that then no worries, but ofr myself and many others it’s an absolute deal breaker.

          • cerothem@lemmy.ca
            6·
            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.

              • cerothem@lemmy.ca
                2·
                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.

            • Irina@beehaw.orgEnglish
              8·
              1 year ago

              If you know the team, then that’s a pretty good reason to trust them. Only works if you know the team, though.

            • jarfil@beehaw.org
              3·
              1 year ago

              That’s fine… for you, right now.

              But I (and probably most users) don’t know them, over time people come and go, some even change who they are, businesses get sold. Only open source persists.