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kfogel ◴[] No.45284155[source]
So many stories like this about Slack.

We use Zulip (https://zulip.org/) for our corporate chat, and we've never looked back. It's been good, and it's fully open source. We self-host, but paid hosting is easy to get too if you want.

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amarant ◴[] No.45284348[source]
Unless I'm missing something tho, zulip seems to be exactly the same? That is, it's a SaaS with no oss software, no self hostable alternative. Only difference is they haven't hiked their prices......yet.

At this point anyone looking to avoid a price hike like the one described above should probably consider something they'll have more control over.

I'd probably go with my own Mastodon server if I was a company that needed any such communication tool. I'm sure there are other alternatives out there too

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sweettea ◴[] No.45284394[source]
It's OSS and self-hostable. And it's got a great UI and the most joyous technology I've ever had the pleasure of using. https://zulip.com/self-hosting/
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amarant ◴[] No.45284494[source]
Oh, so I was missing something!

That was not very obvious from their landing page!

Well in that case, carry on!

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nh2 ◴[] No.45284670{3}[source]
> That was not very obvious from their landing page!

It says in bold letters:

"Your data is yours!

For ultimate control and compliance, self-host Zulip’s 100% open-source software"

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1. amarant ◴[] No.45284864{4}[source]
Well yeah but I bet slack has similar wording on their site. In this case they apparently meant it, but to me that just registers as marketing speech.

I guess I've been on the internet too long, my brain automatically blacks certain language out, like a biological spam filter.

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2. 48terry ◴[] No.45285260[source]
> Well yeah but I bet slack has similar wording on their site.

...You could go to the Slack website right now and see? We're on the internet. It's all on the internet. We can literally just check.

Doesn't seem to mention anything about being open source, anything privacy-related, data, or hosting.