• Plume (She/Her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1. “Alright guys, it’s time to leave Slack for a better alternative!”
    2. Proceeds to migrate to yet another proprietary and centralized piece of software.
    3. It happens again.
    4. “Alright guys, it’s time to leave [insert software name here] for a better alternative!”
    5. Proceeds to migrate to yet another proprietary and centralized piece of software, again.
    6. It happens again, again.
    7. Clown moment.

    It’s what’s going to happen. It’s what always happens. And on a side note, by the way, I guaran-fucking-tee you that it’s what’s going to eventually happen with Discord as well. I have zero doubt about it.

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      I’m surprised that Slack beat Discord to it.

      But yeah, you’re right. We need to invest our time, energy and support into self hosted solutions.

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      Do you know how to break the cycle? Use open-source software. Use standard protocols that aren’t locked behind some greedy corporation.

      Why not take the features from Discord/Slack and integrate it into a new IRC or Jabber protocol?

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      I mean, if the Threadiverse has enough volume to be useful, someone – probably many people – are going to be logging and training things off it too.

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        That’s the nature of public shit posting.

        The real issue is that tech creeps and other pests think they own my shit posting.

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      At this point, I think the genie is out of the bottle. I feel like unless you’re on some p2p encrypted chat, anything typed into the internet is getting scraped. I’m sure everyone at this point has had at least one comment scraped and used for language model stuff.

      I don’t like it. But it seems like corporations will always find ways to make money off of other people no matter what