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1. vinzv (vinzv@gnusocial.de)'s status on Monday, 18-Apr-2016 22:27:02 UTC vinzv

   • Christopher M. Hobbs
   @cmhobbs I have a web tech blog's RSS in my feed reader. There's no week without 2-5 articles on Slack or referencing it. Must be some sort of fancy web hipster stuff.
   • Alexei Ivanov (alexivanov@quitter.no)'s status on Monday, 18-Apr-2016 22:30:01 UTC Alexei Ivanov

     • Christopher M. Hobbs
     @cmhobbs open source projects should be using Mattermost.org or other Slack alternatives that are open source. Slack is not open source and is proprietary. Read this article: https://drewdevault.com/2015/11/01/Please-stop-using-slack.html
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   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2016 08:21:43 UTC MMN-o ✅⃠

     • umehack
     • Free and Open Source Software
     • tuttle
     @tuttle Last weekend I was ready to stay home instead of going to a "fix/remake" workshop (me representing !umehack) because they hadn't setup _any_ communication outside of walled gardens (apart from collecting emails).
     
     I had told them they should get just an ordinary website. It didn't happen until I explained that only supporting walled gardens directly oppose a hacker ideology, diminishing my motivation to help. Also their mails had "Sent from my iPhone" advertisement, despite Apple's infamous environmental disservices (not ideal for the workshop!). I had to ask them several times to remove it before they did so.
     
     I think it's important to show those who want help from the !foss community that what we do is in fact important and that centralisation of the internet is bad for _all of us_.
     
     Our common struggle is in fact so important that we _should_ say no to "bad deals". If we don't say no to #Slack, #GitHub, #Facebook etc. it's effectively the same as saying _yes_ to them.