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Anyone using Element, RocketChat, or Mattermost instead of Slack? What’s your experience been like?

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I use Element for several chat groups. It's... okay. It's no Discord, but I abstractly like the Matrix protocol. I'm not ultrabullish on it, but I'd like for it to be more successful than it is.

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

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Currently: WhatsABI

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Upside: There are several Matrix clients/servers, but Element is the most up to date and complete one. The experience is somewhat closer to IRC than it is to Slack.

Downside: It can be slow/janky especially on older machines, but it has gotten pretty good. Progress has been moderately slow, given the age of the protocol.

It's not really designed to be a Slack replacement as much as Rocket Chat, it's more designed to be an open protocol that is usable in a lot of different contexts.

This would be fore a small business, sub 50 employees, that doesn't want to use paid or American software anymmore.