• Vojtěch Fošnár@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    Yeah, I hope Element manages to become sustainable. It feels like they are running out of funding from what they did in the last month.

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      11 months ago

      I don’t see the reason we need a venture capital funded bloated protocol anyways. Just switch to XMPP. It’s much more lightweight and it’s the internet standard for instant messaging.

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        11 months ago

        Let’s clear something up:

        • Matrix is a free and open protocol.
        • Element is one of several free and open source Matrix clients.
        • Vector Limited is a company funding the development of the Element client, that also sells a Matrix homeserver.
        • There are several other free and open source Matrix homeservers.

        You DO NOT NEED to pay a dime to Vector Limited for a Matrix homeserver, or use the Element client.

        Meanwhile, XMPP is a “built by committee” nightmare, with a committee that didn’t commit (pun intended) to basic features, leaving file transfer, audio, or video calls, to be defined as “protocol extensions” (aka: incompatible) by each client.

        TL;DR: use Matrix, with the Element client or any other, leave Vector Ltd. for the businesses.