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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?

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!)

So yeah, consider this a call for a @gajim / #Gajim or @pidgin / #Pidgin for garbage platforms!

  • Cuz back in the day we had way worse messengers yet people actually made #AIM, #ICQ, #MSN, #QQ, #IRC & #XMPP work just fine from one single "phat" client!

  • Can we please get that back?

Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)Content warning: Rant re: Signal Shills being dangerous Tech Illiterates

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

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.

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@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.

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?

@ukraine @rada