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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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

Yes. You can also self-host their bridges.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

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

oh okay, ya I meant single board computers like a raspberry pi

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

Pretty sure the beeper app is just a fork of element with added ui for interacting with different bridges.

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

What password do you use?