Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat
Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat
Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat
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.
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.
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?
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.