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    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      5 months ago

      Thanks!

      “There’s basically no open standard for chat, and our vision is to create that by connecting to legacy chat networks,” Migicovsky said in an interview.

      Why you’d pay so much for a company that doesn’t have massively proven tech is beyond me.

      • Nia [She/Her]@beehaw.org
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        5 months ago

        What’s even more confusing for me is that for a lot of the services Beeper does still offer, it directly breaks their TOS too, especially Discord. They don’t allow logging messages which is basically what Beeper has to do anyway to be able to let you read anything through it, since it runs via the bot API on your account on Discord. Fine enough as a hobby project or small/medium scale thing, terrible business decision for a large CEO

        Seems like an impulse buy with little thought put into it to me