- cross-posted to:
- foss@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- foss@beehaw.org
Today we are sorry to announce that we are not able to bring the Libera Chat bridge back online. We have already begun working through clean up tasks, such as clearing ghosts, and expect to be done by December 22. If you see any bridge artifacts left past that point, please let us know.
We at the Matrix.org Foundation have been working behind the scenes for months with the team at Element who operated the bridge and our peers at Libera Chat. Our hope had been to address the issues that were raised about the bridge to the satisfaction of Libera and to quickly bring it back online, but ultimately the Foundation is only a facilitator in the process and does not have the resources to maintain and operate the bridge itself.
Long term, the Foundation’s hope is to have the resources to service its core programs as well as provide additional community services like bridge maintenance and operations. However, as an open source foundation that is still early in its journey, we must be realistic about our capacity and make hard choices about where we put our scarce resources.
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Following Libera Chat earlier post it’s not surprising. Matrix Foundation, been paying Element to handle all the infrastructure of even their main matrix.org instance. They have no team of their own.
Element is starting to look really really nasty in all of this. It’s disconcerting to me.
New Vector was always like that and the foundation was always “community washing” by them. The only difference is that they are running out of easy venture capital cash and thus can’t afford spending much money on community goodwill any longer.
After reading the original back-and-forth between Matrix and LiberaChat, which led me to discover how public a lot of matrix groups are (https://view.matrix.org/) I don’t feel comfortable using Matrix for personal communication.
It’s only the groups that’s choose to be public.
You have to configure it for that.
Matrix is perfect for private and personal communication too.
What’s your concern with element?
I mainly see a funding issue for matrix.org but that’s also because the people behind it always offered the service as element, not as matrix.
But what’s the bigger problem with it?
In theory, for profit Element (aka New Vector) and open governance Matrix Foundation should have different motivations. But since CEO and COO of Element are part of the Matrix Foundation and how all Matrix development is mainly done by Element it raises a lot of questions. Not to mention Element having ties and taking money from law enforcement agencies.
And just recently Foundation transferred two of the Matrix servers to Element which will require CLA to contribute.
How would you like Matrix to be funded?
The CLA isn’t that great I agree, yet there are other implementations and anyone can set up another server.
There are, but Synapse is by far the most popular and if the transfer kills the momentum of outside development due to CLA, it will doom other implementations too.
