Facebook plans on offering a free version of its Slack competitor

It's not like it's never been obvious, but it's pretty clear to me at this point:

Facebook and Google are evil, and we must stop them.

unless you are an ardent follower of techworld, generally people tend to assume facebook will do nothing with their data, facebook is trying to become a monopoly in everything just like google, they just want to control the world(Free Basics etc). Monopoly is always bad.

I predict there will be more of this pattern with time. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to realize a small UI dev team can slap something shiny in front of a simple IRC cluster then add their own marketing widgets. There are already open source docker based projects one could fork like convos. The biggest hurdle for the FB and ilk to monetize this would be internal legal approval and project timelines. I bet half of the folks on HN could do this as a side project.

so does it have the "new" stories feature too?

Who in their sane mind would use this?

Give those fucks more of your data? Why?