The week I tried to unplug from Slack

I don&#x27;t understand the big deal with Slack. It&#x27;s a glorified web-based IRC-like thing? And <i></i>yet another<i></i> centralized, privately owned, third-party service. This is always the big turn-off here. Are there good self-hosted or federated slack alternatives?

I just turned off all notifications on desktop and phone except direct messages, and instances of (my n6me&#x2F;my name) anywhere else. So I only get notified if somebody wants something from me personally.

I try to focus on DM&#x27;s only. Written about my addiction to Slack bots here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@RecurVoice&#x2F;rise-of-the-slack-bots-5a7928d404e7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@RecurVoice&#x2F;rise-of-the-slack-bots-5a7928...</a>