Re:Slack is retiring its status account on X
by mschuster91 on Friday October 20, 2023 @06:22AM
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> The only improvement is if they could get rid of the requirement that you use a phone number to sign up for these services, which is a regression from AIM, MSN, ICQ, IRC and Jabber/XMPP.
That would only lead to one thing: absurd amounts of spam.
Re:Slack is retiring its status account on X
by lxgr on Friday October 20, 2023 @11:39AM
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Signal is working on that feature right now.
And as far as I know, Telegram still requires a phone number (or some crypto nonsense) as a primary identifier and for signups. They just allow you to hide that from your contacts.
Re:Slack is retiring its status account on X
by jacooper on Sunday October 22, 2023 @04:34AM
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Use matrix then
Re:Slack is retiring its status account on X
by lawtalkinghuman on Monday October 23, 2023 @03:10AM
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Yup, I do. It's a great place to talk to myself and nobody else.
A bunch of people I know who play video games are on Telegram. I'm pointing out that I can talk to them without sharing my phone number which I can't do on WhatsApp/Signal.
Not being stalked by weirdos is a higher priority for a lot of people than anything involving spooky Edward Snowden stuff involving the NSA, FSB, GCHQ, Mossad and Five Eyes etc.
On Telegram, I can be in rando messaging groups of people and have a username rather than a hard-to-change, legacy voice traffic routing number that's widely used for tracking.
The only improvement is if they could get rid of the requirement that you use a phone number to sign up for these services, which is a regression from AIM, MSN, ICQ, IRC and Jabber/XMPP.