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Re:Slack is down by JohnBooty on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:27PM (#25642107) 

    and use it to communicate with a group of about 20
    friends. Most of them aren't "technical" people.
I'm insanely curious about the human side of things here. How did you get them to buy into this idea in the first place? That sounds like quite an achievement.

The non-technical folks in my life generally struggle with paths of least resistance (iMessage, etc) and it's hard to imagine getting them onto some alternative platform/protocol.

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Re:Slack is down by Unklejoe on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @09:14AM (#25645676)
It did take some persuading. I think the main reason I was able to pull it off was ironically because they're not that technical. I bet most of my friends don't even know what Slack or Discord is. That's not to say they're dumb or anything - they just don't spend as much time online as one would think.

Previously, we were mostly using group texts or Snapchat/Instagram to communicate, so the biggest selling point was the fact that we can share full quality pictures and videos between iOS and Android people.

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Re:Slack is down by decrypt on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @11:41AM (#25647284)
This is awesome. I have always wanted to self-host a Matrix instance as well, but I imagine it's going to be very hard to convince them to move over, from Telegram. Is there a blog post that I can read about homeserver setup? I am keen on seeing how easy it was, and keen on seeing what level of technical and financial resources you had to invest to get going.
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Re:Slack is down by JohnBooty on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:45PM (#25652271)
That's interesting. Thank you for sharing that!
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Re:Slack is down by thesuitonym on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @09:20AM (#25645734)
For my part, I don't have buy in yet (Because I'm not convinced Matrix is ready) but I think I could get it. I have 7 or 8 friends who do not use Discord except to talk with me and a few other friends that I know can be convinced to at least start using Element next to Discord. Once I feel like my homeserver is in a state that I can invite these non-technical people in, I'll be in the same place.
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