Welp, my family refuses to use SimpleX. I’m still partially trapped at M*ta WhatsApp then. But I don’t wanna turn GPS (GooglePlayServices) on.

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    16 hours ago

    Err Beeper docs say you need to open the actual WhatsApp app every 12-14 days or it will disconnect.

    I also think beeper uses play services for notifications so not sure it solves the original problem.

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      9 hours ago

      Beeper should just be a matrix.org chat server. There’s a lot of open source apps for matrix.org.

      I self host so I’m not 100% certain on beeper. I know it uses the same open source project I do to get my messages into matrix.

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        3 hours ago

        Beeper itself isn’t the problem, it’s all the hoops you have to jump through for the bridges to trick WhatsApp, Facebook, etc into connecting with it.