> It's only a matter of time before Slack and Discord start to ban people using alternate clients
Pretty sure in the case of Slack that their business customers will have words when a bunch of their developers can't suddently communicate with the business...
There isn't, as long as you're willing to tolerate the risk of getting your account banned for blatant ToS violation. Companies like Slack tend to ban first, ask question never, and good luck reaching customer support if you aren't a paying business customer.
(FWIW, I judged the risk was wort the effort in my case, and was a happy Ripcord user for the years I had to use Slack.)
Pretty sure in the case of Slack that their business customers will have words when a bunch of their developers can't suddently communicate with the business...