I am looking for a solution to receive WhatsApp messages on my phone. I don't want to install the WhatsApp app on my personal phone, but it is on my work phone and its mandatory for my job. I held out for a long time but it is necessary that I answer messages on there.

Beeper.com is enticing but it appears to have a lot of trackers for an app that claims it respects privacy.

What do you guys think?

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[–] 16 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

It is just a Matrix service, you can connect with any Matrix client.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    So I can sign up for beeper and connect through Element or another Matrix app of my choosing?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes. You can also self-host their bridges.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Would self hosting be possible (and fairly reliable) on a SBC?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I’m not sure what an SBC refers to, but the matrix server is pretty heavy unfortunately.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Beeper provides a free service to bridge all your chats into the same place, including traditionally secure applications like signal with end to end encryption. By using beeper, you are letting them decrypt all your signal chats and re-encrypt them on their servers. I wouldn't trust a paid service with my privacy on this level, much less a free one. An alternative model could have installed the bridging and stuff directly on your device in the app, but from a usability standpoint that becomes less convenient especially when trying to port all the chat applications to all the platforms. They are just a hosting service for open source bridges with a nice closed source client.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Is this the same as Beeper.com? Beeper.im doesn't go anywhere for me.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    correct, I typed it wrong. It is Beeper.com but for some reason I thought it was beeper.im

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