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Good Foss Alternative to Slack? (self.foss)

submitted 1 year ago by Chemslayer to c/foss

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Hey Beehaw, I wanted to check if anyone knew of any good Foss alternatives to slack?

I live in a co-op, and we currently use free slack to organize our online discussions, but we've run into issues with the free version (namely being unable to see posts older than 3 months). Paying for pro is way out of budget, so Im looking for alternatives.

We could probably self-host if required, assuming it doesn't require a ton of power. And it'd be very important for it to have a good phone app or phone front, as that's how most people interact with the internet. We're only just shy of 30 people, so no need for super-high capacity. Thank you in advance!

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[–] rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.io 1 points 1 year ago

I moved my family from Slack to RocketChat when Slack changed the free version to 90 day retention.

I found the UI was pretty similar. I absolutely hate Mattermost’s UI, and I didn’t think my non-techie family would do well with all the encryption prompts in Matrix/Element.