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Love the CEO sketches! And they’re not even in the top five things Brennan has done, probably!
Wow! That’s one annoying video!
Bought by Automattic? After they non-consensually took all of Tumblr and hosted Wordpress to train AI? And after their big boss revealed his transphobia? I guess i’ll skip this one
Gravatar was a great, minimal, independent service. Until they acquired it and integrated it into their WordPress platform and onboarding (trying to get you to become a customer).
Dammit yes! Mandatory shot out to David Revoy and his replacements of it (and the blog post where he mentions how he divested himself of CDNs).
You link to an avatar generator.
What made Gravatar great beyond that was that you set it up with your email account, and other websites would use your chosen avatar,identified by email address.
Had a longer answer that went away for some reason 😭
Your criticism is fair, but:
- Using the email as a seed on the generator goes halfway there, here’s an example, although of course it could never change
- Centralizing the avatar opens that service up to be grabbed for tracking like Gravatar did, or breaking the security of a site by injecting code without the consent of the site owner. The usual tradeoff between security/privacy and convenience.
Would be good to have a good user-managed way to do the same (well, beyond using an image on your own hosting, i guess)
That seems really exciting! But don’t services like Discord forbid third party clients?
I’ve been using Beeper with a Discord bridge for three years now. No problems.
Beeper isn’t a Discord client.
Kind of is though, if it quacks like a duck
My arse quacks like a duck
How is beeper reading my Discord DMs without breaching Discord TOS?
e: Their ToS and privacy clauses are way too opaque for something that’s not open source. No from me, Ma’am.
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I’ve already had Discord accounts snupped out from under me for not giving them my phone number, I don’t wanna give them a real reason to ban me 😅
Discord’s own Linux client is kinda ass and keeps breaking my build using old insecure electron versions/forcing you to update before you can use the app while not being up to date in my package manager
Gotta use a custom client anyway to keep my sanity intact
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I’ve been using a Discord bridge with Beeper for three years with no problems.
That’s not what I asked
Alright, I got to ask. Having one app for all these services sounds great. I remember some drama around it though, don’t recall the details. So what am I missing, is this actually good news?
Its not open source but neither are most of the apps it connects to.
Edit: Found a comment in another thread that sums up valid concerns https://feddit.nl/comment/8763492
See this comment by @derin@lemmy.beru.co
thanks but I don’t need this proprietary shit
Another closed source chat app? Yeah, no thanks.
Anti Commercial AI thingy
Sadly doesn’t appear to be usable for SMS by Google Fi users who have web sync enabled. Guess I’ll be holding off.
I guess I can finally use proper WhatsApp web on iPad 😂
I wish there was an web app.
There is, they just don’t publicise it. Actually one of my favourite features of the service tbf. Just load up a web page and all my messages are there, regardless of where they came from.
Link is incorrect.
Thanks, fixed! (TIL you need the https:// bit on Lemmy)
Add iMessage and Viber and I’m in.
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/927/
This is not applicable here, since Beeper is “just” Matrix + Bridges + Simplified UX!
- Discord? Not working (probably because of TOTP)
- Facebook Messenger? Not working (probably because I use it without Facebook account)
- SMS/RCS? Not working (looks like it requires Google account)
Seems like it’s not ready yet
Without iMessage, right?
Some self-hosters have been able to get iMessage working.
What is it lol
Unified chat app…combines almost all chat networks into one.
Thanks buddy
Sure thing
I’m not your buddy, guy!
