I'm not relying on Slack, I'm using Slack because my workplace forces me to use it. I still remember the days when Slack was little more than IRC with a coat of

I'm not relying on Slack, I'm using Slack because my workplace forces me to use it. I still remember the days when Slack was little more than IRC with a coat of paint. You could actually connect to Slack via IRC clients, and that went away with the introduction of "Teams" around 2016. In any case, I would prefer company-internal tooling for company-internal communications over some SaaS any day. But I'm not the one in power to make these decisions. So over the years I've used Slack under the assumption everything I write on it will be data mined, sold, and now used for training LLMs.