I'm a huge fan of increasing our freedoms. But truth is there are things a lot bigger than even a few humans together. e.g. a vulcano breaks out means you can't go on top of the Vulcano without dying. A big corp or government wants your data, they will get it one way or another. So the goal of freedom cannot be reached. You always depend on something.
However, that doesn't mean one shouldn't try to keep power over ones own life by accepting to work hard for it, by accepting to not use some maybe-nice-but-exploitative things, etc, by spending money and votes on people and projects and politicians who fight for freedom of everybody.
I feel at work Slack is really the right thing, because what you produce there is not free anyways. My company owns the data I produce at work. So why shouldn't they own the chat logs (and pay for it)? For opensource and spare time projects certainly IRC and XMPP are the way to go.
Therefore I'm not really pissed with Slack, but with the people who choose to use Slack for things where it's clearly not the right solution. It's a Sisyphean decision, though. Because you can't really make people not let themselves be exploited, especially if you try to give them freedom. The pain is that most people decide, totally freely, to sacrifice their freedom for a quick feeling of comfort.
However, that doesn't mean one shouldn't try to keep power over ones own life by accepting to work hard for it, by accepting to not use some maybe-nice-but-exploitative things, etc, by spending money and votes on people and projects and politicians who fight for freedom of everybody.
I feel at work Slack is really the right thing, because what you produce there is not free anyways. My company owns the data I produce at work. So why shouldn't they own the chat logs (and pay for it)? For opensource and spare time projects certainly IRC and XMPP are the way to go.
Therefore I'm not really pissed with Slack, but with the people who choose to use Slack for things where it's clearly not the right solution. It's a Sisyphean decision, though. Because you can't really make people not let themselves be exploited, especially if you try to give them freedom. The pain is that most people decide, totally freely, to sacrifice their freedom for a quick feeling of comfort.