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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Beeper.com - how does it rank in terms of privacy? (self.privacy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by chockblock to c/[email protected]

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I am looking for a solution to receive WhatsApp messages on my phone. I don't want to install the WhatsApp app on my personal phone, but it is on my work phone and its mandatory for my job. I held out for a long time but it is necessary that I answer messages on there.

Beeper.com is enticing but it appears to have a lot of trackers for an app that claims it respects privacy.

What do you guys think?

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[–] AProfessional 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

It is just a Matrix service, you can connect with any Matrix client.

[–] chockblock 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

So I can sign up for beeper and connect through Element or another Matrix app of my choosing?

[–] AProfessional 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yes. You can also self-host their bridges.

[–] chockblock 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would self hosting be possible (and fairly reliable) on a SBC?

[–] AProfessional 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m not sure what an SBC refers to, but the matrix server is pretty heavy unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Single board computer (such as Raspberry Pi). As someone who used to host a matrix server I would agree it is fairly heavy and I was the only user of it. There are guides out there for setting it up on a Pi (example) so I suppose it is doable.