Are there any #Slack users here?
I have a serious question: Why?
Far as I can tell, it is not only a way to give a US corporation full access and control over your most crucial communication patterns.
It is also really confusing, complex, hard to administrate, and riddled with "insert coins to continue" traps.
And I haven't found anything that it does better than alternatives that are decentralised and more secure.
But I know people are using it.
Why? What am I missing?
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Sounds crazy, right? The content you created being held hostage by the tool you used to create it — who’d agree to such a thing?
Anyone who signs up for #slack, it turns out. Blog post: https://blog.zulip.com/2025/07/24/who-owns-your-slack-history/
Slack conversation with a co-worker:
Them: My gut says it's not an issue at all -- but I know my gut ... and it sometimes can be super wrong lol
Me: Yes, sometimes my gut instincts need a mental probiotic, as well.
OH SHIT IT'S "BOB"! 
One thing that really pisses me off personally is the #regression in terms of #Messenger #Apps.
My personal distaste and dislike for #proprietary, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider #services like #Signal ¹, #Telegram, #Discord ², #WhatsApp ³, #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, etc. aside:
WHY is there no #CrossProvider #Messenger to handle that shite?
WHY does everyone of these shitty providers think people want to download their #bloated #WebApp that takes up triple digit Megabytes if not entire Gigabytes and will gobble up all the #RAM and #CPU each of them can??
This problem ain't new and already got solved for corporate social media ages ago! (Not to mention actually good messengers!)
I mean API 0 - style access because obviously none of the platforms will allow, endorse or support such an endeavour and actively fight the developers and users !
So yeah, consider this a call for a @gajim / #Gajim or @pidgin / #Pidgin for garbage platforms!
Friendly reminder that Slack is going to automagically enable their brand-new magical AI pixie dust in everyone’s workspace on (I think) the 17th, so maybe go log into your Slack admin account and maybe disable the AI pixie dust before it infects *you* #ai #slack #sysadmin #bofh #offbydefault #jfc #sigh
... and for the last an Incredible SUBGENII Document:
THE STARK FIST OF REMOVAL (1982) 
This is priceless for those of us who were too young or children then.
By the way @Stang was Here!
BUY IT NOW 
:
https://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/books.htm
Happy X-DAY, superior Mutants! 
MAY THE "BOB" BE WITH YOU
Today Here en La Iglesia del Surf
comin' like a Hint, the Surprise MailBomb
from LA RESISTANCE INTERNATIONAL
via @SirDockBunson 
Time Control is POSSIBLE, brothers and sisters!!!
Can you see How Easy it Works?
@zulip @alternativeto #zulip is an alternative for #slack or #teams
#IKnewThat
I don't know where zulip is based though and if you can run it in your own Iaas stack
Hard not to read this as a threat…
Where is the button 'Go fuck yourself!'?!
Apparently in 2015 I knew what this meant. I now have not the faintest idea what the hell is going on. Maybe you do.
#teaching #slack #equations
New: #DeAppleification project 
Good hardware, if overpriced 
Bad software & services, deliberately lacking #interoperability 
Today, I shut off Apple's closed #iMessage service entirely. Now using #Beeper as a universal inbox, with #Signal, #WhatsApp & #Slack DMs 
Goal: shutting off all services will make it much easier to switch to cheaper hardware in future. Which is why Apple’s entire business model depends on tying their hardware to their software & services
They will never have enough data about you.
They will always ask for more.
That's how they feed the billionaires.
Leave and delete corporate social media.
Before they eat you whole.
@Em0nM4stodon All the normal suspects then 
Pleased you included #slack I've tried to explain to some friends (not comrades) that it's tantamount to giving your local burglar the keys to your front door, but, some people have to be so 'right on' right?
STOP using corporate platforms! 
From demanding "real names", official IDs, and face scans destroying pseudonymity,
To carefully keeping track of everyone you interact with,
To tracking everything you do on the internet *outside* these platforms linking it back to your profile without your knowledge,
They will now utilize, process, tag, and judge everything you post to feed their AI models or sell it back to someone else's models.
It will only get *worse* from now.
You have no control whatsoever on what will be done with this AI-compiled profile of you later on.
The only solution to stay safe from their insatiable greed is to leave and delete,
before they eat you whole.
Started using #Slack daily again for work. Fortunately it's still exceptionally accessible, I'd say the best #Electron-powered app in matter of #Accessibility, along with #VSCode.
@Daojoan
Yes! A few years ago, my employer decided we would all use #Slack. I thought it was fine for instant communications, but I suspected people would stop using #email. Although slower, email is great as a more permanent, searchable communications archive. It has worked out as I suspected and everybody has difficulty finding the conversations they had with colleagues. I still have an archive of email from 30 years ago.
А це взагалі Імба:
Matterbridge
Bridge between Mattermost, IRC, Gitter, XMPP, Slack, Discord and other tools
наштовхнувся на аналог #slack - #mattermost
москалі, після того, як слак забанив їх, почали розгортати цей проєкт у себе.
Чи хтось використовував mattermost?
Наскільки годна тема?
Варто уваги?
(he, him, his) 
