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by kumiokun 519 days ago
Yeah, as a past contributor and long-running homeserver admin I feel pretty rugpulled here. This violates the expectations set in past communications. Synapse was something very different to Element.

(This would at least for me have had a very different taste and reception if the private for-profit alternative would have been done under a different branding than "Synapse Pro" and not hijacking matrix.org community channels to promote it. They don't seem to be able to keep their hats and chairs properly separated)

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> I feel pretty rugpulled here

How? Synapse is still being developed, this is just a commercial addon for huge customers.

> and not hijacking matrix.org community channels to promote it. They don't seem to be able to keep their hats and chairs properly separated

matrix.org has never excluded mentioning commercial entities, past blogs have frequently included information about etke or beeper for example.