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Slack

Like many other distributed teams, the Filecoin developer relations, lead by the team, works mostly on Slack and Discord. You can join the Filecoin Project Slack for free by going to and the Discord by going to .

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If you just need a general pointer or looking for technical FAQs, you can head over to the .

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