I’m interested in this. I want to host my own Lemmy, Bookwyrm, Matrix, etc. servers but I find that not having access to appropriate password resetting is a deal breaker for not only me but for anyone I would like to join. I looked in to some email services but couldn’t find one that wasn’t charging more than it would cost to run the actual website

With a Lifetime plan, at least it’s a one time purchase and I don’t have to have yet another subscription eating away at my bank account

How do you like the service so far? Any issues with emails being marked as spam or being undeliverable?

How long have you been running it so far? Any issues?

Everyone outside of the U.S. almost assuredly still has SMS capabilities, it’s just not common utilized because everyone is already on WhatsApp or Telegram. It’s where their friends are, locking them into the ecosystem, which is exactly what I just said. And I would be willing to wager the only reason WhatsApp really got huge was because SMS hasn’t always been free to use and may still not be free in some countries and with some plans.

Telegram, Signal and WhatsApp are fine, as for privacy how exactly are SMS better?

I wasn’t speaking to privacy specifically, but where all your friends are.

If you want privacy, then you shouldn’t be using Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp anyway, considering both are owned by Meta and their privacy track record is shaky at best.

Signal is a great choice, but we get back to the main point where not everyone is on Signal, and once you are on Signal you’re locked in to using Signal and must have their app to participate in the conversation.

My point wasn’t that SMS is better, but it’s simpler and more widely available and doesn’t require a standalone application to use.

Ideally we would use an open standard like the Matrix standard to communicate, that way you can download whatever application you want and have all the privacy you could ever desire, but not have to download some random messaging application just to catch up from Gary from primary school

If you’re technically savvy, it looks like you could self-host the application. https://github.com/beeper/self-host

It sounds like a too good to be true situation. Definitely an interesting concept though. Sounds like they use remote servers to connect to the third-party apps using your credentials and then transcribe the messages using the Matrix protocol to the app. Source here and snippet below

Beeper consists of two main components:

• A client app that runs on your devices.
• A web service run by Beeper.

… Beeper’s web service consists of a Matrix homeserver and infrastructure to run open source bridges that connect to 15 different chat networks.

Currently free but also will be a Plus version eventually rolling out, according to the FAQ

For now, everyone has access to all the features of Beeper Plus for free. At some point in 2023, we will begin charging $5-10 per month for Beeper Plus.

Also, no humor is lost on the fact that it is dangerously close to Wuph from The Office…

It’s exactly what social media platforms, particularly Facebook, want. They want you to feel locked in because your friends are there

I don’t know why people don’t just use more SMS. You don’t need all the fancy bells and whistles, it shouldn’t change the conversation you’re having, especially with the gradual rollout of rich messages, and it has a wider audience than Facebook will ever have. More people have SMS than have Facebook

This is so wacky it’s astounding.

You don’t buy a company for their servers or employees, those can be found elsewhere for the same price. You buy a company for its users and its brand. To throw away one of the most icon brands in the world, which is present in the footer of every major website in the world, is baffling.

What is the end game here?

I think this is just so funny. They took what was simple, made it way too complex, and are now scrapping the whole concept which has been around for a decade because it’s too cluttered because of the complexity they introduced

You can also print at a library in the US

I prefer Edge to Chrome (for Chromium uses, Firefox all the way for anything else), but Edge is starting to get so bloated. It’s becoming reminiscent of the old Internet Explorer toolbars. They just have so many features the screen is getting cluttered

I’ve used Android since the early days (I think as early as KitKat?) and I’ve been thinking about switching to Apple in recent years. I’m just tired of privacy being a line that’s crossed over all the time. So if they want to retain more customers they need to start treating our data with respect

That’s definitely what they’re after, if you ask me. But if you ask them, they’d claim your privacy is protected…

One thing I don’t understand about this situation is that they took what was almost certainly a profitable service and abandoned it. Meanwhile, they have services like Gmail and Maps which can’t be profitable, in my opinion, and just shove resources at them. They’re way too set on user data and advertising. It’s a shame

Reddit (and Boost, the app I used before) offered several different layout styles that you could pick from (e.g. cards, list). Are those the types of layouts you’re referring to? Those could be added, I expect, and the more the merrier

Or do you mean more specific layout details like where the voting buttons are?

Jeroba is great and open source (and free)! Rather than “better Lemmy apps” why not just improve the one that already exists?

Did the same this morning but with Boost. End of an era, really

Glad to see someone representing Ecosia in the thread! I was kind of hoping it’d be more popular

I also use “Tab for a Cause” as well and love both. It’s nice to feel even just a tiny bit better about my searches