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Re: Spectrum is joining GitHub

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Post by throwawaymath »

paxys wrote: post #22
Arkanosis wrote: post #12

I didn't know Spectrum until today. It looks similar to Gitter. As I understand it, it means we now have at least three “slack-like”, well-backed, open-source, community-centered chats: - Gitter, now owned by GitLab; - Spectrum, now owned by GitHub; - Mattermost, independent, but fully integrated within GitLab. That's great to have credible alternatives to the proprietary behemots that are Slack, Discord and others,…

Can something owned by Microsoft be really considered less of a "proprietary behemoth"?

If it's open source, yes.

Re: Spectrum is joining GitHub

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

coolspot wrote: post #54

I am curious how it is not a trademark infringement? Can someone please explain? Skype was sued in UK for using letters "S,K,Y" by brand "Sky" and lost [1] [1] - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32593735

In the US, similar trademarks are fine as long as they're in different industries. See https://www.estesrockets.com/ and https://www.estes-express.com/ for example.

Re: Spectrum is joining GitHub

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Post by Leace »

petejodo wrote: post #53
djsumdog wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the next thing on my list to setup. I want to get a synapse server up with FB Messenger/Hangouts/IRC/Discord and Slack bridges to bring all my messaging back under a gateway I control (even if I have no control over the actual chat services) and a unified accessible history.

I'd like to read about how that goes! This is exactly what I want as well. I hear synapse requires a good amount of resources

That seems to be confirmed by admins running bigger servers such as disroot [0].

[0]: https://disroot.org/en/blog/matrix-closure

Re: Spectrum is joining GitHub

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Post by ndarilek »

egypturnash wrote: post #58
bobthepanda wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or the other Spectrum, formed from the merger of Time Warner Cable and Charter.

Or the other Spectrum, the magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which has been published since 1964...

Or the instant messaging transport, which is what I thought this was related to when I first saw it. :)

https://spectrum.im/

Re: Spectrum is joining GitHub

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Post by zestyping »

bovermyer wrote: post #9

For those who, like me, have never heard of this before: Spectrum is a real-time chat service where each conversation has a permalink.

Thank you.

Is that different from how Slack conversations or Twitter conversations have permalinks, in an interesting way? What starts a new conversation?

Re: Spectrum is joining GitHub

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Post by zestyping »

L-11 wrote: post #40

To write a dissenting comment: Zeit (the company behind `now`) recently killed their 10,000+ member Slack server in favor of Spectrum. Their reasons were (a) Slack isn't designed to support communities, (b) they were having to answer the same questions repeatedly, (c) those answers weren't being indexed by Google, and (d) there is very little abuse prevention in Slack. Another way of phrasing (d) is that they seemed…

Spectrum has no concept of channels or topics?
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