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Re:Slack's bait and switch by jcbrand on Monday March 12, 2018 @06:33AM (#16567198)
The particulars of each one's business model is moot if they're all incentivized similarly (which is to lock-in users and to hoard their data).
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Re:Slack's bait and switch by Maro on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @01:40PM (#16577996)
Lockin could mean they use the service, or stronger, they use the service on the official UI (which may have ads). I think for Slack, the first type of lockin is enough (a paying user is a paying user, whether they use IRC or slack.com), whereas for FB the second type of lockin is better because only that can be monetized.
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