4 ms·
Facebook plans on offering a free version of its Slack competitor
- unstatusthequo 9y agoGive those fucks more of your data? Why?
- anaganisk 9y agoso does it have the "new" stories feature too?
- anaganisk 9y agounless you are an ardent follower of techworld, generally people tend to assume facebook will do nothing with their data, facebook is trying to become a monopoly in everything just like google, they just want to control the world(Free Basics etc). Monopoly is always bad.
- acchow 9y agoThey can't both be monopolies in everything.
- sweetjustice 9y agoIt's not like it's never been obvious, but it's pretty clear to me at this point: Facebook and Google are evil, and we must stop them.
- sdwisely 9y ago> Facebook and Google are evil, and we must stop them. I agree and usually we don't have a good and approachable open alternative to push. I genuinely think matrix and riot.im tick all the boxes this time though.
- LinuxBender 9y agoI predict there will be more of this pattern with time. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to realize a small UI dev team can slap something shiny in front of a simple IRC cluster then add their own marketing widgets. There are already open source docker based projects one could fork like convos. The biggest hurdle for the FB and ilk to monetize this would be internal legal approval and project timelines. I bet half of the folks on HN could do this as a side project.
- eveningcoffee 9y agoWho in their sane mind would use this?