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Re: Shopify is acquiring the Threads team

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But what is it exactly?

"A Slack replacement, not a social app from Instagram" according to the login page ( https://threads.com/login )

The fact that that disclaimer is on the login page itself sounds really problematic.

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> According to their Twitter posts, they have been working directly with their heavier users for a while longer to get them migrated off. Props to them, but this is why I have a dislike for cloud software. Companies wouldn't even need to do that in the first place, if they had just used self-hosted Mattermost or Rocket.Chat, or something else, since those are usually good enough for like 80% to 90% of the use cases a…

Heavy its a huge pain to set that up and maintain it though. Rocket chat, last time I checked required building your own android app and pushing it to the store.

No need to build your own android app for rocket.chat. They have their own apps that work well with your own self-hosted instances out of the box.

Mattermost previously had some weird thing in regards to your own app for native app notifications, but haven't seen the issue in the most recent versions.

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According to their Twitter posts, they have been working directly with their heavier users for a while longer to get them migrated off.

> According to their Twitter posts, they have been working directly with their heavier users for a while longer to get them migrated off. Props to them, but this is why I have a dislike for cloud software. Companies wouldn't even need to do that in the first place, if they had just used self-hosted Mattermost or Rocket.Chat, or something else, since those are usually good enough for like 80% to 90% of the use cases a…

In a perfect world... Unfortunately with each update of Rocket.chat and Mattermost they've begun to limit or cripple the self-hosted, open-source, non-paid versions.

At some point the community will likely need to create on-going forks to maintain the nice features we take for granted today. For example, I'm working on alternative Mattermost SSO compatible out of the box with the latest open-source version. Mattermost self-hosted, with an alternative (non-paid per user) SSO is good for 99% of use cases, but then again, they'll start to see that and cripple away bit by bit.

I've recently heard good things about Campfire Once, may ultimately be better option compared to rundle everywhere.

Though Mattermost really is nice... sigh.. can't have nice things.

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