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The bridges made for Beeper are all open source (https://github.com/mautrix/), so you can set up your own Matrix server with bridges and use any open source Matrix client (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/).

Besides Beeper, the only consumer bridge hosting service I'm aware of is Element One, but it's only barely maintained, so I'd definitely recommend self-hosting over that.

Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:42AM (#25859275)
Messages are stored in encrypted form on the Beeper server and the Beeper client has a local search index (the same one used by Element desktop: https://github.com/matrix-org/seshat)
The page seems to have been updated recently to say 1000 instead of 150, definitely less than a month based on archive.org
Re:P2P Matrix on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:49PM (#23395517)
matrix-media-repo has an early implementation for IPFS support: https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-media-repo/issues/115#is...
Re:OpenSSH 8.2 on Friday February 14, 2020 @03:24AM (#22324911)
I'm pretty sure the server also needs to support it. The U2F signature stuff is different from SSH, so it needs a new authentication protocol: https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/PROT...