Re: slackpocalypse? (Alternatives to Slack like Matrix.org)

2017-05-19 Thread Herwig Hochleitner
In any such discussion, I'll heavily favor matrix.org. To me, decentralization seems inevitable and I hope that it will already carry, what marketers will be calling web 3.0. Current matrix.org infrastructure is only semi-decentralized (similar to xmpp), but the data model is already built with ful

Re: slackpocalypse? (Alternatives to Slack like Matrix.org)

2017-05-18 Thread Paul Fernhout
Here is an essay I wrote in January 2016 against using Slack for FOSS (which cites that Ryver page): http://pdfernhout.net/reasons-not-to-use-slack-for-free-software-development.html The biggest practical issue (ignoring philosophical ones or theoretical ones) is probably "Slack is focused on tea