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Is anybody self hosting Beeper bridges?

I'm still wary of privacy concerns, as they basically just have you log into every other service through their app (which as I understand is always going on in the closed source part of Beeper's product).

The linked GitHub README also states that the benefit of hosting their bridge setup is basically "hosting Matrix hard" which I don't necessarily believe.

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[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 2 points 6 months ago

Hm, so it's encrypted from your beeper client to the bridge, decrypted, then re-encrypted with the outgoing platform's protocol. Seems like a good reason to host your own bridge, and a good call on it being a glaring attack surface.

Seems like the secret sauce is in how they deal with messaging platform integrations? Maybe the goal is to avoid another iMessage lawsuit. With Beeper as a proof of concept it would be cool to start adding integrations in a fully open source way (legality permitting)