Wasn’t there a competitor named Mattermost?
a FLOSS competitor?
- “Alright guys, it’s time to leave Slack for a better alternative!”
- Proceeds to migrate to yet another proprietary and centralized piece of software.
- It happens again.
- “Alright guys, it’s time to leave [insert software name here] for a better alternative!”
- Proceeds to migrate to yet another proprietary and centralized piece of software, again.
- It happens again, again.
- Clown moment.
It’s what’s going to happen. It’s what always happens. And on a side note, by the way, I guaran-fucking-tee you that it’s what’s going to eventually happen with Discord as well. I have zero doubt about it.
I’m surprised that Slack beat Discord to it.
But yeah, you’re right. We need to invest our time, energy and support into self hosted solutions.
Do you know how to break the cycle? Use open-source software. Use standard protocols that aren’t locked behind some greedy corporation.
Why not take the features from Discord/Slack and integrate it into a new IRC or Jabber protocol?
I mean, if the Threadiverse has enough volume to be useful, someone – probably many people – are going to be logging and training things off it too.
That’s the nature of public shit posting.
The real issue is that tech creeps and other pests think they own my shit posting.
Stay away from proprietary crap like Discord, Slack, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. There are enough FOSS alternatives out there:
- You just want to message a friend/family member?
- Signal is the way to go
- You need strong privacy/security/anonymity?
- SimpleX
- Session
- Briar
- I can’t really tell you which one is the best, since I never used any of these (except for Session) for an extended period of time. Briar seems to be the best for anonymity, because it routes everything through the Tor network. SimpleX allows you to host your own node, which is pretty cool.
- You want to host an online chatroom/community?
- You need to message your team at work?
- You want a Zoom alternative?
In the perfect world where you can convince your company to use anything other than MS Teams and that your family bothers to use anything that isn’t WhatsApp or Telegram. Unfortunately I don’t live on it 😭
Ok sure, it’s more complicated in a corporate environment. But you can easily convince your friends to switch to Signal, I got almost all of my friends and family to use Signal and it’s great.
The problem with Signal is that it’s just not very user orientated.
I got almost all of my friends and family to use Signal
That should be easy, since I’d have to convince one guy to do so. Won’t happen, though
- You just want to message a friend/family member?
This was definitely a fuckup from Slack but as I’ve understood it, the “AI training” means that they’re able to suggest emoji reactions to messages.
Not sure how to think about this, but here’s some additional info from slack: https://slack.engineering/how-we-built-slack-ai-to-be-secure-and-private/
Edit: Just to pick main point from the article:
Slack AI principles to guide us.
- Customer data never leaves Slack.
- We do not train large language models (LLMs) on customer data.
- Slack AI only operates on the data that the user can already see.
- Slack AI upholds all of Slack’s enterprise-grade security and compliance requirements.
>put messages into someone else’s system
>don’t read privacy policy
>someone else uses your messages
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