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> When you are Slack Inc and the only differentiator you have is that you are in control of how chat works, why on earth would you switch to a protocol that you
by evv 9y ago
> When you are Slack Inc and the only differentiator you have is that you are in control of how chat works, why on earth would you switch to a protocol that you don't have full control over?
The GP is calling for a slack competitor to launch and gain popularity with the help of an open protocol. Once the pendulum swings back towards openness, Slack would be forced to adopt it to stay relevant.
If you value your freedom, use the open source RocketChat, instead of Slack.
- cyphar 9y agoThe majority of my comment was talking about Matrix, which is an open protocol with free software server/client implementations.
- Spivak 9y agoYeah, but they're not that different. They use their own protocol and their flagship client is a web/electron app.
- cyphar 9y agoWhen you put it like that, sure. But Matrix is federated (sort of like IRC but it's "open federation" in that any room can be shared between home-servers) and has e2e encryption. Rocketchat has neither of those features (though it is nice and simple if you just wanna throw up a chat server at a company -- which is the main purpose of the project as I understand). If you want to talk with other people then I would recommend Matrix.