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Element is starting to look really really nasty in all of this. It's disconcerting to me.
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.
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.