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You can't just tell Julie in HR to get a persistent shell session and set up her bouncer.

For Matrix, you can say "go to chat.company.com" and click log in with Google.

You absolutely can tell Julie in HR to log into the company instance of The Lounge or whatever friendly frontend IT set up. Users should no more need to run their own bouncer than their own homeserver.

This assumes that there is actually a friendly frontend meeting the equivalent feature and UI/UX experiences of things like Slack and ignoring the cost of maintaining that service by IT.

Yes, I assume that https://thelounge.chat/ exists. As to cost/maintenance... there are no free lunches. You can pay with your money and your data, or your money and your time. I happen to find the ladder preferable and frankly cheaper than people think.

I'm sure Julie from HR also isn't present for every physical chat at the watercooler, and isn't any worse for wear.

In fact it'll be great for everyone if HR is not present at every watercooler conversation. At most companies we got work done despite company leadership and policy, not because :)

> For Matrix, you can say "go to chat.company.com" and click log in with Google.

And half of them logs in with their private Google account.

Usually not as bad as allowing personal GitHub accounts to be added company teams.

Eventually somebody starts wondering who spikeycactusplant4589 is.

Trust me. It’s bad. Real bad. ‘Cause when it’s a startup, there are minimal restrictions. You can share what you want.

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