Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
by KirinDave on Sunday November 01, 2015 @05:18PM
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1. But isn't that sort of the point? IRC as an ecosystem has had years to get its act together. Like many corners of the tech ecosystem, perverse incentives have frozen IRC's progress. The very things that Slack, Hipchat and others have exploited are the things the old guard IRC users love. Opacity, terminal interfaces and a total lack of accountability are exactly what many IRC users find alluring.
2. Using cloud services in exchange for contributing to aggregate data seems like a pretty clear understanding of personal value.
that's just the nature of the beast, x.509 is also very old- but old things should be fixed or replaced with better alternatives, slack just fixes a usability problem.. but trades all privacy and freedom for that.
Personally it's not enough, but google has a massive market share because normal people do not consider that their data or freedom has any worth.
at least google is pro-free market in the way that you can extract data out later and migrate, I don't see slack being able to offer that reasonably. (or their incentive to allow it)