Agreed! Which is why Matrix is *not* controlled by Element or any other company. Just because one scalable implementation happens to be proprietary doesn’t kill the whole protocol - if anything it should encourage others to build scalable servers too.
Once network effect kicks in, then the more the merrier - proprietary included. But before critical mass is reached, platform credibility is the dominant concern. Actor plurality is an answer to that concern, that @matrix.org doesn't have. What then, besides a great reference implementation ?
lets be real, sure there has been made some distance between foundation and element but it is still deeply intertwined.
It is still imo a bad move to make this implementation proprietary, you know why it is good to make open code, better than i do. There have to be other ways to secure the funding
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It is still imo a bad move to make this implementation proprietary, you know why it is good to make open code, better than i do. There have to be other ways to secure the funding