GitHub - beeper/bridge-manager: A tool for running self-hosted bridges with the Beeper Matrix server. (github.com)
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 19:58
https://mander.xyz/post/26594992

www.beeper.com It is the bees knees.

#selfhosted

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Chodi_MacCunt@no.lastname.nz on 16 Mar 21:25 next collapse

builders make birdges idito

dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 08:41 next collapse

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.

Blisterexe@lemmy.zip on 17 Mar 11:59 collapse

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.

fossilesque@mander.xyz on 17 Mar 12:21 next collapse

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.

dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 14:24 collapse

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.

cass80@programming.dev on 17 Mar 12:27 next collapse

It’s great. Been using it for years. Even wrote my own bridge that integrates beautifully with their first party ones.

lambda@programming.dev on 17 Mar 13:54 collapse

What did you write a bridge for? Like what service did you connect to?

cass80@programming.dev on 17 Mar 15:05 collapse

Nextcloud Talk

lambda@programming.dev on 17 Mar 19:39 next collapse

Neat!

Blisterexe@lemmy.zip on 18 Mar 16:58 collapse

Did you release the code publicly?

cass80@programming.dev on 20 Mar 03:30 collapse

No. It’s a weekend job that implements only the tiny subset of features I care about.

Blisterexe@lemmy.zip on 20 Mar 11:23 collapse

Fair enough

Ulrich@feddit.org on 17 Mar 16:00 collapse

Beeper sucks. Here’s why:

  1. You increase your attack surface and downgrade your security to the level of Matrix, which is not that great and collects pretty much all of the metadata.

  2. These companies do not want you using their services this way. For that reason they are always trying to break the bridges and in my case constantly logging you out of your account and threatening to delete it due to “suspicious activity”.

  3. They lie about supporting SMS and RCS, instead opting to Bridge to Google Messenger, another proprietary 3rd party service.