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I've pretty much stopped caring about the Beeper app. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I want to love the idea of a universal messaging app, but being on a waiting list with tens of thousands of other people for months has killed my excitement for it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I've gotten access to it, tried it for all of 30 seconds, and immediately deleted after. For one, there is a difference between full app integration and "you can connect it through beeper", which essentially removes any feature except for basic messaging. But the most egregious issue is that if you decide to try to use their iMessage service, they just host it on some random Apple hardware they have, guaranteeing absolutely 0 security