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Any privacy-respecting way to receive Slack notifications? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by monovergent@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Work uses Slack, which is quite entrenched in the organization, so trying to move all of my contacts over to something else would be nontrivial. Colleagues use it to send moderately urgent messages every now and then, so notifications on my phone would be a nice-to-have.

I haven't had much luck finding well-maintained open-source clients for Slack. I could sandbox Play Services alongside the official app or a browser, but I'd rather not make my phone run the whole Google Play stack just for those notifications. Did I miss any low-hanging fruit or is hosting a Matrix bridge the only alternative?

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[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m dying to do this but the clients for Matrix on iOS and macOS look like trash, they’re either web wrappers or have that creepy Windows look.

I really wish I had the time to study Swift and native app development.

[–] scott@lem.free.as 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm running GrapheneOS and have no idea what things look like on the fruity phones.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 1 week ago

I use Linux utilities everyday on macOS as well as on my servers and networking equipment—I love it to death.

But when it comes to the end-user stuff, I’m deeply invested in Apple’s ecosystem. My personal laptop, work laptop, phone, Apple TV work pretty seamlessly together and I love that aspect of it.

What saddens me most is the drive away from native app development regardless of OS. Can’t stand Windows but if I’m using it I want the applications running on it to match Windows’ design language the same as I do on macOS (Linux GUI looks awful on macOS) and Linux (depending on desktop environment).

More related to Linux though, I do tend to lean more toward BSD UNIX than Linux, but due to the lack of containerization and popularity it’s hard to make it a daily OS.