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>For Slack's primary use-case of intra-organization communications, this is completely useless and wouldn't work anyway (if you block and hide messages from a team member, how are you going to collaborate?). If there is abuse, it should be up to management/HR to step in and address this issue.

What makes you think any given organization is a corporation?

I'm currently in 13 Slack organizations, and only 2 of them are companies. Slack is widely use for collaboration in co-ops and closed communities.

>Mozilla should really mind its own business - Firefox marketshare is dwindling

Mozilla is a non-profit organization whose stated goals[1] align with this post perfectly. Not a company who's sole product is Firefox.

1. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

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> Mozilla is a non-profit organization whose stated goals[1] align with this post perfectly. Not a company who's sole product is Firefox.

IDK. With safety angle, maybe. But Slack is the opposite of "Healthy Internet". It's a corporation that wormed its way into companies and communities alike, by doing "embrace, extend, extinguish" on IRC to gain initial organic marketing from naive techies. And they've paved the way for Discord making so many good communities no longer accessible.

It's not the kind of association that makes Mozilla look good to me.

I don't think the association between Mozilla and Slack is as strong as you think. They aren't collaborating with Slack, they are pressuring them to add this feature. If their goal is to make the web better, pushing for companies that control a significant portion of online communities to add safety features like this is actually a decent act.

the idea is to add a safety control for preventing harassment to a hugely popular communication medium, not to promote a company.

> It's not the kind of association that makes Mozilla look good to me.

they're probably ok with that. can't please em all.

> the idea is to add a safety control for preventing harassment to a hugely popular communication medium, not to promote a company.

They're not doing the adding, though. But I guess it's different if you knew before that Mozilla was involved in this space. I didn't, so it got me by surprise.

That said... it's also good free marketing for Slack, because I for one though they're mostly dead already, and that outside of corporate space, everyone ditched them for Discord long ago.

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