Comment on There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works

• Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Running BlueBubbles at the moment, eagerly awaiting someone to build a self hosted implementation of this so I can stop relying on my macos VM.

  Beeper Mini does not require a Mac VM or any Apple products. There’s no cloud proxy. It registers your phone number directly with Apple’s servers, you don’t even need an AppleID at all, just like on an iPhone.

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  • scarilog@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I know I was referring to the notifications, because my understanding is that you need a separate server to forward notifications to your device from the APN…? Idk maybe the firebase free tier can handle this without the need for a desktop app running somewhere.

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    • Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Notifications are generated after the message is pulled from Apple’s servers to your device.

      The push messages just tell your device a message is available to be pulled. It doesn’t contain any message contents or metadata.

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