Yes! I mentioned it in the article and they have a self-hosting guide which to be honest, is not about hosting Beeper at all, but it’s just a vars.yml template to host some matrix bridges. The template I provide in the article is based off of that.

You can’t know what they do with your data, so I decided to self-host this alternative.

Was born too late to enjoy that experience 😔

You can totally skip federation and you won’t be able to use matrix users or join public rooms, but I guess it’s something that some people don’t need.

I wish I could escape it because of privacy concerns, but I’m finding it too convenient to let it go. Would appreciate it if someone could convince me out of it

You could implement plenty of ways to access it, Cloudflare is just one of them. I made this guide to achieve the goal of self-hosting matrix bridges for people who are already familiar with Cloudflare and have a domain behind it, but it’s not something that is mandatory to have for a similar setup.

Cloudflare Tunnels are useful to connect to the server without exposing your ssh port to the internet, and Cloudflare Workers to add .well-known files for federation and Sliding Sync proxy if you don’t have a way to serve those files easily.

Lmao. Truly broken right now.