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.
I’ve given up on Element a long time ago. I’ve been bouncing between Nheko and NeoChat since those are the most mature Matrix clients that aren’t bloated webapps.
What bugs me more is encryption still is kind of a mess across devices and clients. Also I hate how there still isn’t any alternative Matrix Server that’s not Synapse or Dendrite and isn’t abandoned, doesn’t suck, is relatively fast and supports at least most of the Protocol. Can’t even really blame people because I’ve tried writing my own Matrix Server and Client before but I eventually gave up because the protocol is what I call “A JSON clusterfuck”. Why can’t the protocol be as simple as IRC? Why does it always have to be JSON over HTTP?