**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber · 2018-03-13T22:13:59Z

Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber

A lot of organizations I care about used to have an IRC presence (eg Creative Commons) and moved primarily Slack based on the justification of "well there's an IRC / XMPP bridge". But it turned out that was a bait and switch: https://opkode.com/blog/slacks-bait-and-switch/

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**Now is the summer of our discotheque** @Elizafox@mst3k.interlinked.me · Mar 13, 2018, 22:14

**Now is the summer of our discotheque** @Elizafox@mst3k.interlinked.me · Mar 13, 2018, 22:14

@cwebber You know I warned people but nobody listened *sigh*

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber · Mar 13, 2018, 22:15

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber · Mar 13, 2018, 22:15

@Elizafox this is how a person gets a cassandra complex

**Now is the summer of our discotheque** @Elizafox@mst3k.interlinked.me · Mar 13, 2018, 22:17

**Now is the summer of our discotheque** @Elizafox@mst3k.interlinked.me · Mar 13, 2018, 22:17

@cwebber Cue Discord crippling or disabling API access next so interoperability is basically dead

**🌈 A. Wilcox delicately** @awilfox@mst3k.interlinked.me · Mar 13, 2018, 22:18

**🌈 A. Wilcox delicately** @awilfox@mst3k.interlinked.me · Mar 13, 2018, 22:18

@cwebber @Elizafox trust me she's been Cassandrafox since probably 2009

"You really should back up that domain controller"
"Meh"
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb instead of sdc
"Told you"

**Diane** @alienghic · Mar 13, 2018, 22:24

**Diane** @alienghic · Mar 13, 2018, 22:24

@Elizafox @cwebber https://xkcd.com/743/?

**Louis Cypher** @luciferMysticus@mst3k.interlinked.me · Mar 13, 2018, 22:18

**Louis Cypher** @luciferMysticus@mst3k.interlinked.me · Mar 13, 2018, 22:18

@cwebber

Embrace
Extend
Extinguish

**Maiyannah of Mirrah** @maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com · Mar 13, 2018, 22:25

**Maiyannah of Mirrah** @maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com · Mar 13, 2018, 22:25

@cwebber I'm pretty sure most of us saw this coming.

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber · Mar 13, 2018, 22:28

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber · Mar 13, 2018, 22:28

@maiyannah Yes... and argued it would...

**Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅** @bob@soc.freedombone.net · Mar 13, 2018, 22:31

**Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅** @bob@soc.freedombone.net · Mar 13, 2018, 22:31

@cwebber @maiyannah It's all so predictable. But people like their shiny closed stuff.

**lufthans** @lufthans@mastodon.rocks · Mar 13, 2018, 22:49

**lufthans** @lufthans@mastodon.rocks · Mar 13, 2018, 22:49

@cwebber the slack irc bridge was bait and crap while it was "working"

slack's primary innovations thus far are a return minimalistic configuration options and addition of a bad UI

h @h@social.coop · Mar 14, 2018, 00:26

h @h@social.coop · Mar 14, 2018, 00:26

@cwebber You're absolutely right. Hopefully the next time they will think it twice.