Over the past two weeks or so we’ve been improving Riot’s Slack bridge enormously: making it as seamless as possible to link the members…
We're on Slack! Join us! - Creative Commons
Today we’re excited to announce that we have migrated our real time communications from IRC to Slack.
Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
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From 0 to $1B - Slack's Founder Shares Their Epic Launch Strategy
“HELL YEAH WE'RE USING @SlackHQ AT WORK I. LOVE. SLACK.”
Linen | Front page for your Slack and Discord Communities
Linen syncs your Slack and Discord threads to an SEO friendly website that allows your community to discover you through search engines and reduces the number of repeat questions.
Slack’s Threading Failure #threadfail
Slack, as I’m sure everyone now knows, introduced their new threading feature after many years of planning and customer requests. From the…
Bridges & The Last Network Effect
We're in an exciting moment for the open social web. As Elon makes one bad decision after another on X, we've seen waves of users leave the platform for alternatives. Three obvious beneficiaries of these, ahem, lapses of judgment are Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon. What's particularly interesting about these three
Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack
These projects hope to provide not just a free alternative to the popular chat app but beat Slack at its own game by providing features it doesn't have.
slackfs/PLAN.md at main · jeremy46231/slackfs
Contribute to jeremy46231/slackfs development by creating an account on GitHub.
Slack → Colibri Bridge
One-way sync from the FoC Slack workspace into the Colibri atproto network. Every bridged message, reaction, and attachment is a public record on the bot's bsky.social PDS; every raw Slack event is archived losslessly under a com.feelingofcomputing.bridge.* lexicon on the same repo. The bot authors messages into channels owned by a separate community-owner DID — the inverse pattern described under Identity.
Bridges & The Last Network Effect - augment
A bridge beyond Discord
Millions of digital communities have already made a home for themselves on Discord, and we'd rather not force them to make a binary choice between the critical mass of members they've built up on Discord and the agency afforded to them on Roomy.
Our Feeling of Computing Slack-to-ATProto bridge has been upgraded to be bidirectional, so posting in ATProto on @colibri.social writes back into Slack. Another step towards weening ourselves FoC off Slack. 9 years (!) of history has been backfilled code here wiki.feelingof.com/slack-colibri-bridge/
Slack ↔ Colibri Bridge
wiki.feelingof.com
Mariano Guerra
Build your own always up-to-date Feeling of Computing newletter Based on the amazing work by @larkworthy.bsky.social live sync-ing slack to at-proto Try it here: marianoguerra.github.io/Feeling-of-Computing/at-foc/
oh i forgot to mention in my talk, but some of us small indie relay operators are getting together to make @firehose.club so we can share network limit bumps and bans and build some shared tooling. we can go further together <3
Bridging the Net
Building bridges, breaking down barriers. Creators are spread too thin between too many platforms - how can we take this work and make it more seamless and automatic so that creators can focus on creating, not playing the exposure and anti-suppression game....
Tynan Purdy (@tynanpurdy.com)
Jasper — Import Instagram photos to Grain
The Garden (by Paul Stephenson) — Semble
Sill
Ditch Platforms (by Tynan Purdy) — Semble
Lqm1/X-ActivityPub-Bridge
