[godelski]

Why ask Anthropic?

Why not build on something better like Matrix? Or Signal?[0] Or even Keybase?

I really do agree we need to move away from Slack and Discord, but I'm also very confused why the call to action is to Anthropic. IMO we should really be pushing for open systems so that nobody can take it from us. Otherwise we repeat the cycle again and again. There's some good protocols to start on. I'd also say this is a good reason to make sure that the things you work on are hackable. It's how we combine different domains of expertise.

[0] see the Molly project, you don't have to use Signal's servers

[georgewfraser]

Claude-in-Slack is a big enough feature to overcome the slack-connect network effect. Openness is absolutely key! I wrote this post because I hoped that if Anthropic is already planning to do this I might be able to influence them to make open-data part of the plan. But openness by itself isn't a big enough feature to get users.

[godelski]

It really sounds like you're asking for something else. More like multiple people to be able to talk to the same instance. Which that's a very different thing than Slack

[a3w]

They seem to not want a messenger, they want a multiuser-first prompt.

[j45]

Has Matrix improved the ease of use for folks to use it independently?

Mattermost, Rocketchat and others have first class packaging for quick and easy roll out.

[godelski]

I listed those as examples of where one could start. Not as ready to ship answers. I mean we are in a thread where the context is no ready to ship answer, so...

[jinushaun]

Did you read the article? It’s not a crazy ask. They want multi-user Claude sessions. But what stops the humans from talking to each other? Boom! You suddenly have Slack.

[gentleman11]

Just use mattermost. We alrrady have an open source wlack replqcement.

[KaiserPro]

> something better like Matrix

matrix isn't fun.

The other thing that I would gently point out is that anthropic's uptime is pretty atrocious

[NewJazz]

Slack isn't either? And matrix is just a protocol ... Maybe a fun client can be built on top of it, eh?

[godelski]

Cool. And?

Those were examples, not answers. Those examples aren't exactly compatible with one another (though bridges exist, but you can bridge anything).