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Beeper is joining Automattic (blog.beeper.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hate the euphemism of "joining". It's not a happy union of two groups of like-minded people deciding to pool their resources to better do what they do.

It's one set of suits paying another set of suits a boatload of money to fuck off, then firing half the people who created the value that made it worth to talk about in the first place.

Acquisitions are not a happy sunshine and rainbows thing, it's one corporation devouring another to gorge itself ever bigger.

[+] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The thing is that we read so much marketing that it colours our world views too much. Companies only ever do good and happy things.

[–] onlinepersona 2 points 7 months ago

Apple is a cute little name. If we called them Malus (latin name for genus of apples), we might think differently about them.

Anti Commercial AI thingy

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Or how about we don't link to marketing articles then??

The real news story for this event is that a big company paid another company a boat load of money to make their app closed source and then launched it while pretending to be a privacy app.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Beeper iirc is the basis for most matrix bridges I use. I‘m not sure this is a good development since I found nothing about their code staying open source which is would be really bad. Another company to try and steal the communities work for profit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hope it is going to be ok. Automattic has been involved with matrix before. Time will tell, but I'm more hopeful than afraid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I hope so too. I bet we‘re gonna see a couple more companies pull that move though since I see a pattern of the world slowly moving towards open source… that makes me vaguely opticmistic. Not because of the companies pulling such moves but a tendency away from proprietary bs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Quite to opposite. They used to be open, now the app is closed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I like to imagine a world where beeper would've been aquired by Proton instead... a man can dream

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Right? This was unexpected.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I’m glad proton isn’t wasting their money on a money sink that seems to open security holes. If they’re going to take a risky bet on something i rather they make a premium Linux phone

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is an ad. The real story is that Automattic paid them a ton of money, closed the source of their app, and launched this shitty inauditable app while pretending to he an open source project

If the encryption happens in the client and the client source isn't available, then all cliams for security are incredible.