8 Oct
2021
8 Oct
'21
5:01 p.m.
I'm still a little puzzled. How does this differ
from the Riot Matrix
application that some of us might already have?
Element *is* Riot. Riot was rebranded to Element.
It was a little worrisome to see this on the Element
page: "Element is
incredibly proud to build in the open, sharing almost all of our own code
with everyone." Almost?
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dep
I don't know what they mean because the Element client is fully open-source. In fact,
there are forks of Element such as SchildiChat.
Matrix is not like Telegram where the protocol is closed-source but the client is FOSS.
Matrix and all the known clients for it are FOSS.