Pebble, a startup that tried and failed to take on Twitter, finds new life on Mastodon | TechCrunch
Pebble, a startup that tried and failed to take on Twitter, finds new life on Mastodon | TechCrunch
Pebble, a startup that took on Twitter and failed, has returned from the dead -- as a Mastodon instance, it seems. The company announced last month that
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At first I thought this was about the Pebble smart watch from 2012. Pretty confused how that becomes a Mastadon instance.
The founder of that pebble is now heading a matrix-derived decentralized chat service called beeper so it's not too far from the truth :)
I love how weird the Internet can be
Does that make him the beeper king?
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/da065da2-adf1-4d60-8de0-dcef8f7d2809#xPeVIu-i.copy
I use Beeper and it's actually pretty good
I'm not surprised. They hired the developer of all the major chat protocol bridges.
I use the big self hosted ansible playbook more for privacy reasons (self hosting everything) but I know it's good! I like their client also but it's not open source I think.
Me too. I was stoked for about three seconds before I clicked on the article.