[daniel_iversen]

This feature is close to useless for me since the admin of the slack account has to “connect” the two teams/domains/whatever - how does that enable free and ad-hoc collaboration in a medium-to-large organisation??? I’m used to tools like Dropbox, email, Asana, G-suite where you can mostly just collaborate with whomever you want around the world. I think slack is missing a huge opportunity by keeping it so locked down!

[robbiemitchell]

Keeping it locked down is how they keep enterprise security teams happy, and selling to enterprises is how they make a lot of money.

[daniel_iversen]

..and that's how rogue use of other tools start and how "shadow IT" became a thing :-) .. these super locked down systems become "security theatre" and create a false sense of amazing data governance and buttoned up security.