Beeper
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Beeper has been acquired! The team has joined Automattic and will continue to build Beeper.

Automattic has added Beeper to their project roster that includes Wordpress, WooCommerce, Penpot and more.

As an open source project based on Matrix, with packages available for Linux… I think this ensures the future for a viable messaging app on our platform of choice.

This will further augment the use of Matrix, which may not be the best protocol for the job as others have commented in the past, but it’s better than proprietary alternatives, and a great starting point.

    • SleveMcDichael@programming.devEnglish
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      3 months ago

      There was a bit of drama on tumblr (owned by Automattic) not too long ago where a relatively well known trans blogger got banned as a part of an alleged harassment campaign. I recall Matt Mullenwag (Automattic’s CEO) being accused of following the user on to other platforms and harassing them. There were also accusations of, IIRC, tumblr staff taking payments to ban users. Which isn’t great. So if my memory is accurate, your gut feeling is probably right.

      Edit: typo, slleged -> alleged

    • exu@feditown.comEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Afaik they’ve been pretty good stewards of Wordpress and other software they acquired.