> Let the corporate crapsters do their thing and let us have our thing. I think this just cannot work if this is called alternatives. GauntletWizard wanted to

> Let the corporate crapsters do their thing and let us have our thing. I think this just cannot work if this is called alternatives. GauntletWizard wanted to specifically point this out: it's a mistake to think that the core functionality of slack and discord is just chat rooms & messaging, their mechanisms that implies terrible privacy are part of the core, and you can't expect users to dissociate messaging from the rest and call it a replacement. +1 for having «our thing», but promoting it by bogus comparison or replacement is setting it for failure.