• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    8 months ago

    I really, really don’t understand what their business plan was. At it’s core it used an exploit to trick Apple into thinking the messages were legit, did they not think Apple was going to close the loophole?

    If Apple wanted iMessage on android it would be on Android. The only people bringing iMessage to Android is Apple, and anyone who figures a way around that is going to get ban-hammered by Apple.

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      8 months ago

      I really, really don’t understand what their business plan was

      iMessage on Android wasn’t their main goal, it’s just what made them famous. they’ve set out as an all-in-one messaging app (basically they let you register on their Matrix server with bridges for other messaging servers, so that they can manage them for you if you trust them enough) that also included iMessage support. for now it’s free but they’re supposedly planning to add some extra features that will require a subscription.

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        You can also very easily run the bridges yourself if you don’t trust them. I do so in my homelab, it was 10 minutes of work setting it all up. Super stable, and e2e from my side.

        For me their value proposition is their new beta android app which is the best Android matrix client, and their quite fast matrix server. That might change in the future when conduit is fast enough…

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          You can also very easily run the bridges yourself if you don’t trust them. I do so in my homelab, it was 10 minutes of work setting it all up. Super stable, and e2e from my side.

          Do you have a guide or list of links?

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    8 months ago

    I have been using the new beeper. It’s life changing. Having all my conversations in just one app is actually making me talk to me friends more. It’s great!

    Fuck iMessage though. Don’t know why people give such a shit.

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    8 months ago

    Can’t recommend Beeper. The new app really is great but the services don’t want people using it that way and it shows. I got constantly logged out and even got a scary message from Facebook about how they would delete my account because I was using automation or something.

    It also basically undoes all of the security and privacy features of Signal.

    It’s a great Matrix client though…

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      It also basically undoes all of the security and privacy features of Signal.

      I’d like to have a source for this claim, please.

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      8 months ago

      I’ve been using it with Facebook for a long time and I’ve never had any issues or scary messages. It’s the main reason I use it as I don’t want Facebook on my phone.