And what is dumb phone?

It’s the same account though. You can have both clients or just element

Matrix. You can use your beeper account on one of the more fully featured matrix clients such as Element X

true. Also: not commenting is easier than commenting

Many people have had easy success with Firefox by spoofing a “Chrome on Windows” user agent; you can use an extension like this one to do so.

The bridges have always been open source. The clients were forked from element (which is open source) until recently when the Android app was rebuilt; the clients are not planned to be open source.

looks like Texts.com is merging with Beeper!

we’re merging with the Texts.com team (who were acquired by Automattic last year) to work together on our shared mission to build the best chat app on earth!

Just go to archive.today and put in a link and it will bypass the paywall

here you go https://telegra.ph/Telegram-hits-900mn-users-and-nears-profitability-as-founder-considers-IPO-03-11-5

I haven’t paid for it yet because I seem to be a ‘lite’ user of browsers, search, and the web in general, but I’m very interested to follow it along.

They’ve been preparing for a while: https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/25/ios-16-restrict-features-based-on-location/

it’s ok because you can edit your comments

that too

It would definitely be interesting to see this go to a major court. I imagine Apple will argue you’re free to do whatever you want on your device but that that does not extend to iMessage servers because those requires accepting pretty strict terms of service and will argue the users are breaking the EULA which they agreed to. Apple will argue they have the right to run their servers as they see fit.

We need new regulations around corporations that run these pseudo-commons platforms as “legit capitalist platforms.”

*ceases

I guess you could argue that given the conflict minerals? idk

It’s not vanished, they just want ppl to sideload it from here now: https://www.beeper.com/download

this is 2 and frankly it’s weak. I expected more aggression from Apple

The RCS standard has no encryption whatsoever, it’s completely plain text, so you have no point here regarding security.

I think you’ve conflated (as most people do) Google Messages’ proprietary modifications that run on top of and over RCS, with what RCS actually is.

I’m not saying you don’t know how, I’m saying that you’re lazy and dismissive