You need a whatsapp account still to use a bridge like thjs. The bridges are for Matrix which is an open source messaging network.
Beeper is built using matrix, and is owned by an American for profit company that also owns WordPress. They’re hosting the bridges, and they encrypt your chat but the bridges are vulnerable to service operators like WhatsApp not locking them out.
Personally I am going for Signal (which ia run by an American non profit) and SMS, and completely leaving WhatsApp.
You can run the bridges yourself, they’re open source. Requires more work (and your own server, of course).
As for third party services, yeah they can block you but then you’ll end up in exactly the same situation as when you say “I only use Signal” anyway. The whole reason people are setting up services like this is because the people they chat with aren’t on their platforms if choice.
You need a whatsapp account still to use a bridge like thjs. The bridges are for Matrix which is an open source messaging network.
Beeper is built using matrix, and is owned by an American for profit company that also owns WordPress. They’re hosting the bridges, and they encrypt your chat but the bridges are vulnerable to service operators like WhatsApp not locking them out.
Personally I am going for Signal (which ia run by an American non profit) and SMS, and completely leaving WhatsApp.
Can’t you self host the bridges: https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager ?
You can run the bridges yourself, they’re open source. Requires more work (and your own server, of course).
As for third party services, yeah they can block you but then you’ll end up in exactly the same situation as when you say “I only use Signal” anyway. The whole reason people are setting up services like this is because the people they chat with aren’t on their platforms if choice.