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Re:Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor by dngray on Thursday September 12, 2019 @05:16AM (#20949533)
> I really hope the community get behind the open source options and don't let more things get eaten up by commercial silos cough slack cough.

Don't forget Slack also bans people who they think are from sanctioned countries:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/20/18150129/slack-iran-deac...

I would like to see a neutral platform be chosen to be honest.

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Re:Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor by swalladge on Thursday September 12, 2019 @05:21AM (#20949562)
Yeah wow that too. :O

> I would like to see a neutral platform be chosen to be honest.

Exactly, and if one of the FLOSS options are chosen, Mozilla could self-host and not need to rely on any third party.

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