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I'm thinking either having a Slack org bridge to a space, or have Slack channels sync to an existing space.

Do you mean that this would sync a whole Slack Workspace (including all channels (public + private), direct messages, etc…)? This would be really cool!

If that's the case, it would probably be an awesome way for an org to completely migrate from Slack to Matrix. One could add the bridge which bridges the entire slack workspace to a space in matrix. Then one could delete the slack workspace and start adding matrix users to the rooms.

Actually, i don't really see how migration is supposed to work in another way, since slack exports for most slack users (free + pro) only contain public channels.

Well export and sync are two different features: export would load the old history, sync would forward messages from one plateform to the other.

And using bots/custom clients, shouldn't it be possible to access private slack channels?

Yeah, sure. I think i just wanted to express that if bridging like that is possible, migration would be also.

Double puppeting is already weird imo because i guess ideally users need to be manually mapped?! And on top of that matrix doesn't really have a concept of deleting users. If an id is used up and the user disables their account the id is gone (unless manually removed from the db). It's all a little weird, which probably drives users/orgs away from migrating from slack etc to matrix even though it could be very straightforward.