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by Stranger43 3360 days ago
It's been going one since the first companies tried to monopolize Internet chat by centralizing it on their infrastructure in the 90ies.

The argument for AOL/MSN etc back when the Internet was new openness for the unwashed masses just a dream is exactly the same being made by slack i.e. that by making it locked and taking away the complexity introduced by the existence of cross vendor compatibility new users face less confusion.