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But companies usually pay for Slack? You pretty much have to to get full history.

• cromwellian 11y ago
  Consumers pay for iOS, but Apple still bans you from selling your app in the store. The gatekeeper function of the platform means they can shut you off at any time. If instead, Slack published a protocol so anyone could author a client, then bots would just be normal chat users, for the most part, on par with regular users, and a bot would simply be something you deploy somewhere to sit in your channels, just like IRC bots. I think Slack is a great app, very good UI, but I'm a little sick of proprietary messaging. We really don't need proprietary centralized messaging networks. Standardize a federated open protocol and let people compete on the clients and let the community agree on extensions to message payloads that clients pay attention to, or ignore.
  • stanleydrew 11y ago
    Yeah it's a shame XMPP turned out to be unable to keep up with the shift from desktop to mobile. Maybe we should take a crack at a more modern alternative?
    • ex3ndr 11y ago
      We are trying to make so at Actor (https://actor.im https://actor.im).
      • oddvar 11y ago
        cool! we should interoperate :) (we being https://matrix.org https://matrix.org) ps. your https://actor.im/platform https://actor.im/platform page 404s
    • oddvar 11y ago
      that's exactly what https://matrix.org https://matrix.org is trying to do!
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