Beeper’s universal messaging app tries to corral WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, and more - The Verge
Beeper’s universal messaging app tries to corral WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, and more - The Verge
There are too many messaging apps. But things could get better.
Pidgin did it, meebo did it... Noww they are doing it.
Good luck to them
Also trillian way back in the day.
Edit: dang, pidgin came first as gaim.
Much nostalgia!
Anyone remember Trillian?
I tried so hard to get chat apps working on my phone back in 2010...sigh.
Trillian was the best.
The good old days. Even bought it
Beeper sets a good premise. Talk to your friends without ever bugging them about hopping over to a completely new app. You might convert some, but not most.
There's a downside to E2EE on bridged chats but if that's not acceptable within your threat model then you wouldn't be using it in the first place.
Hello Disa my old friend...
there are exactly three messaging apps: Signal, Matrix/Element/SMS or RCS. anyone that wants to reach out has those options. I've had a lot of Signal converts.
Replace RCS with XMPP, one is in practice only available through Google's approval while XMPP is a standard created by the same organization that create IP (Internet) and SMTP (Email).
Appreciate the comment. I would like to do that but RCS is basically the default "SMS" option on Android making it broadly available to nearly half my contacts, the onboarding is basically "text me", whereas I'd have to provide some sort of instruction if I wanted to onboard anyone onto XMPP, in addition to recommending a good client depending on what OS they're running.