[bisq-network/proposals] Migrate from Slack to Keybase (#127)

[Steve Jain]

Agreed Slack is bad for many reasons...we've been talking about migrating from it for many months now. But I'm not convinced Keybase is the right way forward.

Keybase's main value _for us_, as I see it, is identity verification for avoiding impersonation. But this can also be achieved through permissions, new user restrictions, and other admin tools available on self-hosted team chat software.

For Keybase:
* Chat is bare-bones
* Integrations are difficult (GitHub, Travis, calendar, etc)
* Signing up for Keybase in the first place is not trivial...it's unrealistic to expect people to set up a Keybase account just to chat

I think it's important to keep the purpose of this communication medium in mind. It's meant to be a **public** collaboration space for contributors and users, where open discussion fosters a culture of transparency. Is E2EE nice? Yes of course. But I'm not sure it matters much in this particular scenario since there is no need for privacy (exception: private messaging).

I think the [original plan](https://github.com/bisq-network/proposals/issues/54) to use a self-hosted tool like Rocket Chat (or my preference, Zulip) is better.

I worked with Rocket Chat a bit last year and was got the impression it wasn't going to be fun to maintain. Documentation isn't great, so there's a lot of guesswork, and support isn't available reliably unless you pay...but it did hit v1.0 "LTS" a month or so ago, so maybe things are better now.

In any case, I've set up my own instances of Rocket Chat and Zulip. @KanoczTomas offered to help with setting these up, so maybe we'll both look at these options and determine which one makes more sense, unless people have other thoughts/suggestions.

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