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amelius 3 hours ago

Why not ask for a federated slack?

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igravious 3 hours ago | parent [-]

for the same reason why not a federated <insert-the-tool-you-would-love-to-see-federated-here>

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amelius 3 hours ago | parent [-]

and, why is that?

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viraptor 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It works in communities, not corporations. Every federation seems to die when enough millions are connected to it. Facebook used xmpp for chat. Google chat could federate too. Apple promised iMessage and then hid behind a silly excuse.

It's extremely against company interests to federate.

	▲	amelius an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I mean, it's not a hard requirement that you ask a company to build it.