Monica Miller@emiller88 has been waiting 4 years for me to agree decentralized social media is cool. Still not convinced this isn’t yik yak.
Anyways, happy first “toot” to me.
Edmund Miller@monimiller now someone needs to buy slack so we can all move to @matrix...
David JayatillakeI'm significantly less worried about Slack. We pay X per user to use the service, they make the service as good as they can to keep us paying this and not moving to Teams which is free for most companies.
The commercial model works, they can't change price upwards very easily. They are encouraged to make the platform good for the purpose it was made for... work.
Twitter and FB are problematic as they are general purpose and free, therefore we are the product!
@jayatid Completely agree just dreaming of less centralization.
I've been having this conversation with friends for a few years about how chat apps can be a distraction, but aren't a bad thing because their goal isn't to keep your attention. It's just your friends/coworkers keeping your attention naturally just like they would if they were in the same room.
Humans placing expectations on you to respond immediately are the problem.