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   Ari does not comply (arisummerland@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 09:34:25 JST Ari does not comply

   Quick question for #Tech Fedi and those of you who work in offices and have to do this kind of thing:

   A group that is just starting to organize needs an online way to post documents, chat, etc., and I would like it to stay away from Google if it all possible.

   Google groups doesn't work with people who don't have Gmail addresses, so I need something that is inclusive of Gmail addresses and other domains.

   A text chain won't cut it because we need to be able to invite new people and we all need to see the documents, notes and be able to change a workflow document/spreadsheet as well.

   I was going to suggest Slack, but I haven't used that enough at this point to know if it would suit our purposes for messaging and sharing documents.

   I have no idea what hashtags will work here, so boosts and suggestions for hashtags are appreciated.

   Thanks in advance for any advice!

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 23:52:12 JST Rich Felker

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     @arisummerland Zulip came to mind for me. Imagine Slack but without all the corporate antifeatures (many of which make it impossible to avoid abuse) and much better UI/UX. I'm not sure if there's any free public hosting or if you'd have to host an instance yourself tho.

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     benjamin melançon (mlncn@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 00:32:30 JST benjamin melançon

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     @dalias

     @arisummerland

     there is free public hosting i've used a little with mutual aid groups in Minneapolis-St. Paul, and @agaric we like to use the paid hosted plan in order to support development of the Zulip software (#LibreSaaS !) and to not add to our pile of self-hosted tools. EDIT to add, the ability to have guests on the paid plan we've found consistently more generous than documented.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 00:33:10 JST Rich Felker

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     @mlncn @arisummerland @agaric 👍 for paid hosting plans to support free software development.