If not, can those with added security needs (e.g. those active in countries with government repression) just use different tools such as Mattermost, Matrix, Nextcloud etc. now, while the rest of the community keeps using whatever works best for them for now (Slack, Google Drive, Facebook etc.)?
No, and I hope I didn’t imply that there is a one-size-fits-all solution that everybody needs to switch to.
can those with added security needs (e.g. those active in countries with government repression) just use different tools
Yes, that is of course possible, and I would expect that to happen automatically. Just note that this means in some cases that we will exclude those people with added security needs from community spaces.
Things that would make me less worried about “using whatever works best”:
switching later is actually easier than I currently think
information becoming available to future adversarial actors is actually not as bad because:
either people are really good at not posting compromising stuff
or there is almost no content that will become problematic in the next years
Do all EA orgs need to use the same tools?
If not, can those with added security needs (e.g. those active in countries with government repression) just use different tools such as Mattermost, Matrix, Nextcloud etc. now, while the rest of the community keeps using whatever works best for them for now (Slack, Google Drive, Facebook etc.)?
No, and I hope I didn’t imply that there is a one-size-fits-all solution that everybody needs to switch to.
Yes, that is of course possible, and I would expect that to happen automatically. Just note that this means in some cases that we will exclude those people with added security needs from community spaces.
Things that would make me less worried about “using whatever works best”:
switching later is actually easier than I currently think
information becoming available to future adversarial actors is actually not as bad because:
either people are really good at not posting compromising stuff
or there is almost no content that will become problematic in the next years