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Cake day: June 11th, 2024

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  • You’re misunderstanding what I wrote, because:

    People leave the platform: “I don’t get why this upsets anyone, it’s his platform”.

    Is exactly the opposite of what I was trying to say with:

    he is not forcing you to use his platform

    you can just leave, there are so many alternatives available, if you don’t then you are part of the problem, giving him power and putting more money into his pockets. In fact you should have seen the writing on the wall many years ago and latest when he bought it.

    Being upset about this now after he did so many worse things is just silly.











  • I’m hosting my own server and my own bridges. Some of the bridges are rock solid and I never need to do anything other than keeping them updated like the discord, the signal, the Telegram and Slack ones.

    Others I installed but they are breaking now and then and I have to fiddle with them like FB messanger, WhatsApp.

    The third category is the ones that theoretically should work but I can’t get them to work like WeChat or Kakao Chat, because they are in a bad shape, outdated or like in WeChats case my account is flagged to not be able to do that for some reason.

    And then there are the chats which have no way to be integrated like Instagram I think.

    From what I understand beeper is just a matrix server with all those bridges installed and they configure update and run them making shire that everything works. And to be honest, that is a lot of work and it’s a good value proposition.

    But yes you’re right they need to decrypt your chats on their server so that the bridge can deliver the messages. Actually I made a video explaining it a while ago about Element One which is doing it in the same way: https://tube.jeena.net/w/rYhp4ZT5Ykw1aBGqMr62KG










  • I think video is very unnecessary, audio is the most important and there are great ones which don’t use the internet or even WiFi but a different radio signal like https://a.co/d/3YAxSzw

    If she really can’t do it without video then I’d buy a ubiquity one because they work without internet connection if you set them up like that. Then only you can access it. But they are quite expensive especially the ones with 2 way audio.