I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024
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Give Beeper a try! It consolidates all the listed apps into one texting app.
Beeper is just paying someone else to maintain Matrix bridges for you.
And that's a bad thing ?
Yes... because you have to trust that person/company. Which you implicitly should not... especially since they're already shown themselves to be untrustworthy in their previous endeavors.
Tried it, its bloated and battery hungry. It isn't also clear how beeper saves and uses/handles your messages.
People really need to consider the pedigree of the guy who created this company and how willing he is to walk away from a company when it becomes unprofitable. Eric Migicovsky sold Pebble when it became unprofitable, promised that people would still have their jobs as devs, and at the last minute, the sale didn't include their jobs, so everyone was left fucked out of luck and with no job. Also, the fact that he has zero long term plans for how to keep fighting Apple for iMessage access after he used a teenagers reverse-engineered code to make a standalone Beeper iMessage app which Apple promptly broke after only days. If that's as far ahead as he was able to "plan" in regards to that, it speaks to his weakness on having a long-term business plan. Lack of realistic long-term business plan coupled with how badly he fucked over the developers when he bounced from Pebble screams "Don't trust this."
Seconded. Good support team too
Beeper is great