I’ve been moving myself and my friends and even clients to Element, but I recently came across blogs about them helping onboard German, US armed forces, and NATO. This is shared with pride everywhere. And Element also goes so far as to say that they “choose who they work with” and not just everyone. And how they don’t work with governments sanctioned by the US, EU, and UK or governments that might “cause large scale harm” or something to that effect. But NATO is a harmless puppy I guess.
I’m so conflicted right now. This is both a rant post and an ask for advice and suggestions.
Matrix being how shit it is feels like proper fifth column stuff. Entrench yourself deeply in the private messaging market, initial product shows promise, then let it remain unusable so that any normie who is not a masochist uses centralised and/or proprietary service and becomes sceptical of open source software.
I have the same feeling about it. And I even told one of my normie friends this theory and he said it’s definitely possible.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish