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derin@lemmy.beru.co 2 months agoJust use any open source client. You can literally do that.
And if you don’t trust the company - for any reason - use their code to deploy your own backend.
Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist!
derin@lemmy.beru.co 2 months agoJust use any open source client. You can literally do that.
And if you don’t trust the company - for any reason - use their code to deploy your own backend.
shrugal@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That’s not the point.
derin@lemmy.beru.co 2 months ago
I disagree. Beeper’s client is meaningless, its the service being offered that has value.
If you don’t mind trusting a third party service with your Matrix instance + bridge hosting, use Beeper.
If you’re into OSS and owning your own tech stack, self host the whole thing.
At no point do you have to use their client for any reason.
shrugal@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The thing is, we are talking about the Beeper service here. Yes Matrix is good, yes Beeper bridges are good, but a closed source Beeper app is bad. That’s what the criticism is about, and it doesn’t help if you deflect that by arguing about all the other things they are doing.
derin@lemmy.beru.co 2 months ago
Fair point, if you’re just against the fact that they wrote a closed source client.
It’s frustrating that closed source software exists, but in this context I’m (personally) okay with it as it funds the development of free software.