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Beeper’s push for iMessage on Android is really over (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (4 children)

it’s now fully focused on “our mission beyond iMessage” and building “a universal, multi-network chat app.”

I would absolutely love this. I really miss Gaim, Adium, libpurple, etc..

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thank Google for killing xmpp.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Last I checked Google doesn't control XMPP, it still exists, is still being developed, numerous apps us it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Speaking of, does anyone remember Rockmelt? It was a weird older browser that had all the popular chats in its sidebar where you can access them without going to each website separately. It was pretty cool until Yahoo bought it and it died instantly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I have great news for you: check out Ferdium.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

Rockmelt is a discontinued proprietary social media web browser developed by Tim Howes and Eric Vishria based on the Google Chromium project, incorporating social media features such as Facebook chat, Twitter notifications and widgetised areas for other content providers such as YouTube and local newspapers. The Rockmelt web browser project was backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen. In April 2013, Rockmelt discontinued its desktop web browser, replacing it with a collaborative project bringing together social elements from various sources. Rockmelt was created by Rockmelt, Inc. , located in Mountain View, California.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

fyi the mentioned app they're working on is already available in limited release: https://www.beeper.com/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

just keep in mind that if you connect any service to it, the messages will be decrypted on Beeper's server before sent either way, so theoretically they could be reading your messages even if you send them through an e2ee service.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

I recall the early days of PC chat services like ICQ, MSN, AOL and the clients like Pigeon and Trillian to try to have them all in one place. It didn't always seem to work the best for long.

It's too bad BBM took way too long to open up to others beyond BB devices. They had some of my favorite emojis and they had for a time a big user base that they could have kept in their services.