Universities Lost the Internet

Re:Universities Lost the Internet by aftbit on Saturday March 23, 2024 @01:57PM (#39801804)

It still bothers me that my Slack domain is https://workplace.slack.com instead of https://slack.workplace.com. The enplatformification of the internet has affected the corporates as well as universities.

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Re:Universities Lost the Internet by PaulHoule on Saturday March 23, 2024 @02:03PM (#39801869)

You want a server from slack to get cookies from workplace.com?

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Re:Universities Lost the Internet by moritzwarhier on Saturday March 23, 2024 @02:27PM (#39802052)

Ha, I assume you are joking but of course this is a valid point.

If you use your own domain, that should equal self-hosting. Using another domain than your company's does not mean it can't be self-hosted, but it is a strong signal. And AFAIK, Slack does not offer anything like redirecting to on-prem instances from slack.com.

And conversely, there is no way to self-host Slack, right? Which was gp's point.

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Re:Universities Lost the Internet by bawolff on Saturday March 23, 2024 @03:12PM (#39802368)

> If you use your own domain, that should equal self-hosting.

Plenty of SASS solutions take the CNAME approach.

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Re:Universities Lost the Internet by pgraf on Saturday March 23, 2024 @04:30PM (#39802884)

perfect use case for the public suffix list (https://github.com/publicsuffix/list)

e.g. add *.ext.workplace.com

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