Wow me quedé chismoseando lo que decías y es impresionante como Mattermost está pensado para funcionar para fines militaristas, y me queda la duda: ¿que tanto de la filosofía queda impregnada en el software en si?. No es para preguntarte, es más una cuestión filosófica (realmente ontológica) sobre las cosas y sus sentidos. Oye conoces otros softwares libres que sean usados también con fines militaristas? muy interesante ahondar en esto, en cómo definitivamente no solo es suficiente que un software sea código abierto, algo de ética deberíamos estarnos jugando también.
Que bueno volver a leerte Eduardo!
Strongly, strongly echo edumerco’s recommendation of Zulip. And i would say that while the values of organizations behind software is also important, as far as values embedded in the software itself, Zulip is at least as suited as alternatives and generally much more suited to a more egalitarian, non-hierarchical ethos. It is easy and basically safe to grant permissions equally and generously.
Agaric would be happy to offer a Zulip channel to any working group or small team that wants to check it out. The flexible, even retroactive, topic-based categorization makes even a single channel a great coordination tool. (As somebody who can take more than an hour to figure out the subject for an e-mail, i thought i would hate this aspect of Zulip, but somehow topics are different, psychologically at least, or maybe because the channel the topic is in conveys half the meaning already, and i love it.)
It is best to have a full organization where you can create any channels as you need them. We pay for hosting Agaric’s Zulip on a standard plan through https://zulip.com/ making this one of the few shining examples of what i call LibreSaaS — fully Free Software available as a service where paying for the service helps fund development of the software, but you can host it yourself if you ever need to. We pay for eight or ten seats and then have a frankly ridiculous number of guests. Zulip also has a pretty good free tier, and free standard plans for open source projects, academic research, small non-profit organizations, and communities like volunteer orgs and support groups.