I was on the beta testing team and have been using Beeper for a little over two years now.
The convenience of having an application to house all of your chat networks is amazing.
I was on the beta testing team and have been using Beeper for a little over two years now.
The convenience of having an application to house all of your chat networks is amazing.
This scans as VCs trying to enclose the internet. If you wanted a communications protocol standard
ActivityPub is more of a social network protocol rather than a messaging protocol. It assumes most data sent through it will get public by default and has very little encryption set up for it, let along E2EE. Now Matrix is a better use case for an open protocol like that and also offers bridges between other chat networks (I wouldn’t be surprised if Beeper has Matrix under the hood).
it is matrix yes! and they’re contributing back to the upstream bridges
from their website:
There’s no reason any of the fields have to be sent cleartext, except maybe the inreplyto property
End-to-end encryption is still a work in progress there, but also that’s more of a social media protocol than a chat protocol.