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by kkfx 1546 days ago
Being polite and cooperative it's a good thing, self-censorship is not and the least one who can write an "etiquette" is a proprietary platform. Sorry that's just a pathetic bland and casual push toward Chinese social score homogenization.

Usenet netiquette, mail netiquette etc are not wrote by someone up front but slowly formed by a community of users out of their experience. My own personal etiquette for Slack is: "sorry I do not use proprietary platforms, seen no reason for them, we have emails, chats, etc choosing a deliberate security risk is not a good policy for a company, as a sysadmin I can't take responsibility for it and so I can't even use it".
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Tagbert 1544 days ago
You must be fun to work with. Slack and similar are just tools. Caring about whether they are proprietary or not is lower down on the stack of priorities for most of us.
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kkfx 1544 days ago
Anything is just a tool, some are good tools, some (self/imposed)torture tools, some are just crappy tools pushed by ignorance that makes anything hard and inefficient, some are security threats etc.

Personally I consider a third-party propritary digital communication tool a security threat on it's own, since the third party might audit anything and I can't tell if that's happen or not, that's why I classify similarly Slack, Zoom, Meet, Teams, O365 etc.

I consider chat-based coms something useful in another era, when we can't just make VoIP calls, or still useful if you need to reach a remote ship or submarine via very expensive and limited sat/LF coms (classic telex), definitely wrong otherwise.

My coms are simple: you need to reach me quickly? Call me, classic SIP/RTP. It's not urgent? Send me a mail, a plain text one with a romance quoted multiple times or a signature longer then the message itself. Try to be "more connected" means trying to be distracted and less productive.

Need to send me files? I hope any company do have a decent DMS also for file sharing purposes.

Need to share the screen? Ok, call me and we do

etc.

Right tool for the right job. About working with me practically: for most who know me it's not an issue, and my productivity tend to be far above the average, for newcomers seems not hyper-nice to start, but it's a short time period.

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