Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This is such a great question I'm going to post it here: "Do you prefer cloud-based platforms like Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Google Chat, or do you use a self-hosted alternative? like Apphitect, Rocketchat, or MirrorFly." I would imagine the vast majority of people use the cloud-based solutions, and may not have even heard of the hosted solutions. Obviously, the two modes fit different use cases. I would ideally lean toward self-hosted, but have in fact always used cloud-hosted. So I need to think a lot about what this question means to the people who are answering it.

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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