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“Essentially, #Salesforce (a $230 billion company) is strong-arming a small nonprofit for teens, by providing less than a week to pony up a pretty massive sum of money, or risk cutting off all our communications. That’s absurd.”

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/slack_nonprofit_license_hike_threat/

“This experience has taught us that owning your data is incredibly important, and if you’re a small business especially, then I’d advise you move away too”

#hackclub #mattermost #slack #enshittification

Slack threatened to delete nonprofit coding club’s data if it didn’t pay $50k in a week

: Collaborationware CEO tried to smooth things over, but Hack Club now plans a strategy shift

The Register
Sep 20, 2025 at 5:04amWeb
Show threadNik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲Sep 20, 2025

Sorry not sorry.

I have no sympathy with a "non-profit for teens" even trying to pull children into commercial platforms in the first place. For what it's worth, the Slack ToU even prohibit use under 18 years.

If you run a "#Hackclub", you should have the competences to do better. #Slack now cutting the service is a bad move, but the issue is self-made and it hits an organisation that set a bad example for young people where they should have known better.