Comment on Salesforce and Slack announce price hikes following expansion of AI integrations

JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it’s great. eventually small businesses will need to rely on FOSS solutions because the costs are counter prohibitive on a sliding scale that’s heavy towards VC funded companies.

  honestly if I was a VC right now, I’d be cozying up to the major PAAS/SAAS vendors and investing with them to drive small businesses to make the choice to get VC or go out of business because it’s too costly to compete and operate.

  Thankfully I’m not a soulless husk.

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  • 7112@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I appreciate you having a soul.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    counter prohibitive

    LOL, what a delightful malapropism!

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  • ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Soulless musk *

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• anachrohack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can opt out of paying for them. If I ran a business, I’d probably try self hosting before I used slack, but it would probably become very difficult at scale

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• fjordo@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can self host the services you need, but admittedly that’s not feasible for most people.

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• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know there decent alternatives to SalesForce, but I’m not sure what you’d replace Slack with. Teams is far worse in every conceivable way and I’m not sure if there’s anything else out there that isn’t already speeding down the enshittification highway.

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