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!
@emiller @monimiller @matrix there are communities on Slack like Locally Optimistic (whom I 💜) are in a somewhat vulnerable position.
If someone chose to buy Slack and run amok (it happens sometimes apparently 😱), it puts that community in a bit of vulnerable position and they'll have to move off it, like we have had to from the bird.
For workplaces, it doesn't matter, they just pay someone else and there a few clones of Slack out there too like Mattermost.
@jayatid Locally Optimistic looks awesome!
Yeah, we're in the same position with #nfcore, but I agree there are plenty of other options if things go south.
Federation of social media/chat just like email keeps things scalable, and then people don't become the product because one entity doesn't suddenly need to figure out how to pay for thousands of servers.