so apparently if a company goes to Slack and whines “our customers are able to communicate without our direct personal approval and we don’t like it”, Slack will say “you’re so right king” and assign that company exclusive admin control of a user commu...
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so apparently if a company goes to Slack and whines “our customers are able to communicate without our direct personal approval and we don’t like it”, Slack will say “you’re so right king” and assign that company exclusive admin control of a user community without asking or even warning the community? https://hachyderm.io/@binford2k/113307917523904182
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@0xabad1dea @mttaggart @binford2k this would not have happened on IRC.
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@andrewdwilliams @mttaggart @binford2k also wouldn’t have happened on the pony express, I don’t see how that’s especially helpful
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@0xabad1dea @mttaggart @binford2k My point is that maybe we shouldn't be using non-open platforms like slack and discord for everything under the sun.
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@andrewdwilliams I understand but IRC is the worst alternative conceivable. The usability is absolute worst in class, it is highly vulnerable to network hiccups and also so notoriously easy to abuse that it’s trained up several generations of script kiddies. It is the simplest thing that could work in 1988, not a serious communications platform for general usage.
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@0xabad1dea @andrewdwilliams projects like Ergo implement IRCv3 features that do a lot to tame it but fundamentally your rubbing up against the fact that the ecosystem is calcified
