Ooo definitely going to give this a shot thanks for linking it. Their docs and guides say all of these bridges are encrypted and though things go through their app/services they cannot see or save anything, will be good to verify with my own bridge/instance however.
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Agreed! I'm pretty psyched about their transparency and the overall model. Especially in the universe where this Apple lawsuit results in Beeper being allowed to connect to iMessage again.
Would love to hear any results you find with hosting! I'll give it a try too and maybe do a follow on post with what I learn.
Please make a lemmy post about it with your findings, and link it from your comment.
I've been interested in doing this, but I can't tell why I need to login to Beeper in order to self host. I noticed their previous self-host solution did not require that.
Because of that login step, I decided to look into this other repo which uses Ansible to deploy a Matrix homeserver and the same bridges that Beeper uses. I haven't finished it yet since there's a lot of config and choices to make, but it seems like it'll serve the same end goal.
Edit: lol, maybe if I read the intro, I'll get my answer.
You can connect any† standard Matrix application service to your Beeper account without having to self-host a whole Matrix homeserver.
Still might go with the second option so that I don't rely on their cloud services.
That's a cool solution! I'd be interested in making a nix flake to do something similar to that Ansible project. Thanks for linking!!
Been trying to read through to understand and see how all this is supposed to work, I guess it's so you can use beeper app and infra and APIs to talk to your matrix server and the encryption/decryption/handshake happens here between matrix and beeper and then send to their servers for delivery and all that portion.
I started using their Signal and WhatsApp bridges today, probably one of the easiest setups I ever did. You just run a Docker container for every bridge, and login to your Signal/WhatsApp account by chatting in the app with the Matrix bot it creates.
Literally takes like 5 minutes if you've used Docker before, and you don't need a domain or forwarded ports or anything.