I don’t see that security/privacy is especially important as a feature of a messaging system, when compared to something like “easy to use” or “my friends are already on it”
Basically all sensitive/important EA communication already happens over Slack or Gmail. This means that the consideration for the switching isn’t especially relevant to “EA”, vs just regular consumers.
This post reads as fairly alarmist against FB messenger, but doesn’t do a good job explaining or quantifying what the harms of a possible security breach are, nor how likely such a breach might be
I don’t think EA want to be spending weirdness points convincing people to use a less-good system—switching costs are quite high!
Fwiw, I do agree that choosing good software is quite important—for example, I think EA orgs are way overindexed on Google Docs, and a switch to Notion would make any one org something like 10% more productive within 3 months.
If you seriously think switching to Notion would improve the productivity of some orgs by 10% you should write this up as fast as possible and convince them to do so!
I would spend more time on this cause if I felt that EA orgs actually would listen to me on this point. And I actually do pitch this quite often to when I talk to leaders at EA orgs, haha.
Hrm, I strongly disagree with this post.
I don’t see that security/privacy is especially important as a feature of a messaging system, when compared to something like “easy to use” or “my friends are already on it”
Basically all sensitive/important EA communication already happens over Slack or Gmail. This means that the consideration for the switching isn’t especially relevant to “EA”, vs just regular consumers.
This post reads as fairly alarmist against FB messenger, but doesn’t do a good job explaining or quantifying what the harms of a possible security breach are, nor how likely such a breach might be
I don’t think EA want to be spending weirdness points convincing people to use a less-good system—switching costs are quite high!
Fwiw, I do agree that choosing good software is quite important—for example, I think EA orgs are way overindexed on Google Docs, and a switch to Notion would make any one org something like 10% more productive within 3 months.
If you seriously think switching to Notion would improve the productivity of some orgs by 10% you should write this up as fast as possible and convince them to do so!
Half-baked draft that has been sitting around for a while: https://blog.austn.io/posts/why-you-should-switch-from-google-docs-to-notion
I would spend more time on this cause if I felt that EA orgs actually would listen to me on this point. And I actually do pitch this quite often to when I talk to leaders at EA orgs, haha.
Can you reasonably expect it to be maintained far enough into the future the same way you expect that from Google docs?
Yes, Notion has been around for 6 years and has raised hundreds of millions in funding: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/notion-so