[solarkraft]

This would be so easy to solve with the right software. I'm amazed that even after years of pandemic all the solutions I'm aware of are still such crap.

Discord is pretty good at this (channels, not calls), but there are probably even better paradigms (there still has to be a way to participate in multiple conversations at once).

[Gigachad]

Part of the magic of in person interactions is that it’s all off record. You can say what you really think, share things that are private.

Meanwhile MS Teams wants to put LLMs in their products to scan DMs for problematic thinking. If corporations want to record and scan everything I say, I just won’t say anything anymore.

[beezlewax]

Hiding what you really think because you management won't like what you have to say is the reason a bunch of problems go unchecked in almost every company I've ever been in.

People should be able to say what they think in any situation without the fear of reprisals.

But it doesn't work that way because management often can't take criticism and so you're left with back channels and politics to get things done.

This is a management problem and a culture problem not a problem with working from home or not.

[sf4lifer]

The telegram chat was far more interesting than anything ever said in slack

[esafak]

Are you referring to disappearing messages in Telegram?

[sf4lifer]

No, we had a group chat on Telegram that we used during meetings for our snarky comments