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> Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, and Zulip are three of the most advanced integrated messaging platforms, and each has many integrations and client applications for various computing platforms, just like Slack. Even more ambitious is the Matrix project, which has defined an open rich messaging standard, with its Riot client and Synapse reference server.
https://davelane.nz/why-slack-better-and-why-open-communities-shouldnt-use-it
#Slack #SlackAlternatives #MatrixProjcet #RiotClient #SynapseServer #RocketChat #Mattermost #Zulip
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Why Slack is better, and why open communities shouldn't use it

There's a newish (last few years) "team communication" platform called "Slack" that most tech (and many non-tech) people use to communicate in asynchronous text, images, voice, and video in business t

Dave Lane
Sep 21, 2023 at 1:47amWeb
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@bsmall2 for what it's worth, in the years since I wrote that, I've now largely left RocketChat behind (it was, for a few years, my preferred option) and am now strongly endorsing Matrix/Element (the successor to Riot) - I've even got it set up with the video & audio conference bells and whistles. Its federation abilities makes clearly superior to the also-rans - whether #LibreSoftware or yucky #proprietary.