Beeper offers self-hostable, open source bridges to WhatsApp, so that you can stay in touch with people who don't want to move (code is open source, bridges can be self hosted)

Blaze@feddit.nl · edit-2 24 hours ago

Beeper offers self-hostable, open source bridges to WhatsApp, so that you can stay in touch with people who don't want to move (code is open source, bridges can be self hosted)

BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world · 1 day ago

You need a whatsapp account still to use a bridge like thjs. The bridges are for Matrix which is an open source messaging network.

Beeper is built using matrix, and is owned by an American for profit company that also owns WordPress. They’re hosting the bridges, and they encrypt your chat but the bridges are vulnerable to service operators like WhatsApp not locking them out.

Personally I am going for Signal (which ia run by an American non profit) and SMS, and completely leaving WhatsApp.

Blaze@feddit.nl · 1 day ago

Can’t you self host the bridges: https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager ?

Beeper offers self-hostable, open source bridges to WhatsApp, so that you can stay in touch with people who don't want to move (code is open source, bridges can be self hosted)

Beeper offers self-hostable, open source bridges to WhatsApp, so that you can stay in touch with people who don't want to move (code is open source, bridges can be self hosted)

GitHub - beeper/bridge-manager: A tool for running self-hosted bridges with the Beeper Matrix server.