I've tried to make this argument in the past and gained no traction. What I did instead was to create self hosted chat things as a fallback for the times when

I've tried to make this argument in the past and gained no traction. What I did instead was to create self hosted chat things as a fallback for the times when Discord or Slack have a green status page but their applications fail to operate. Even light-weight daemons like uMurmur [1] or devzat [2] ssh-chat can be handy in a time of need if a quorum know to fall back to it, especially how simple they are to deploy. Self hosted tools are also handy when one wants to share links or text that should not be on 3rd party sites forever and for eternity. Such things may also be handy if some day the internet censorium gets a little bit out of hand. [1] - https://github.com/umurmur/umurmur/wiki/Configuration https://github.com/umurmur/umurmur/wiki/Configuration [2] - https://github.com/quackduck/devzat https://github.com/quackduck/devzat