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by imp0cat 693 days ago

    Chat rooms and bare bones text editors aren't supposed to be process-heavy, and yet the popular communication platform Slack requires outrageous amounts of ram and CPU to function. [...] Making software this way is costly to off-grid users, or those on slow connections, [...]
So true.
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Slack had a good solution in the form of an IRC bridge but of course they killed it.
Yep. When you're small, cooperate, when you're big, kick everyone else out
Moat, then drawbridge removal.-
Embrace, Expand, Extinguish