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.

  • @xlash123@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • @sunstoned@lemmus.orgOP
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      29 months ago

      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!!

    • @keyez
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      19 months ago

      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.