it shouldn't be that hard?

OP, what’s your background to make you think that way, and if you’re qualified enough to make that assessment, why aren’t you getting to work building the ground floor of something potentially highly lucrative?

The response to “It shouldn’t be that hard” for FOSS is invariably “PRs welcome”.

The difference: Israel is in Syria for imperialist aggression. Ukraine is in Ukraine to protect their homeland from imperialist aggresssion. Combine that with Israel’s pathological need to cover up and deny their extensive, seemingly neverending war crimes in Gaza… Yeah, I don’t have any faith until Israel can prove this was opsec rather than covering up. Israel has destroyed their chance for benefit of the doubt.

Even if it is opsec, they have no right being there, so fuck 'em. I hope their opsec isn’t maintained and their soldiers do die in much the same way I’d hope for a Russian base in Donetsk.

“It was terrible. He would spend hours telling me about how NFTs are the future and I need to get in on the ground floor.”

I know what community this is, Blaze, but it baffles me to recommend this over Element.

• The Matrix Foundation is a UK-based CIC.
• IIRC the for-profit company which develops the Element app which is commercial FOSS is UK-based – therefore it’s European.
• Luxchat, however, lacks support for Linux, the obvious choice for removing oneself from US-based software.
• Luxchat, however, isn’t made by the people behind the protocol like Element.
• Unlike Element’s company, which exists to make money to fund Matrix’s development, Luxchat is full-stop a for-profit company ostensibly supporting nothing. Edit: I was mistaken; a GIE is a company (they’re registered C8 with the Commercial and Companies Register in Luxembourg), but the type of company’s: “aim is not to make a profit, but it can do so simply as an accessory, as the profit resulting from the joint action must also go directly to its members.” That said, I can’t see anything about any money going back to the development of Matrix, which is still a major red flag to me compared to Element.
• The tiny-ass website doesn’t do a thing to estsblish what license Luxchat is under. Element, by contrast, is squarely FOSS.
• While desperately, fruitlessly searching for any sort of license, one of the few pages that turned up from their website just read “Create stunning AI chatbots with our 21st.dev-inspired Glassmorphic UI.” as one of their premium services. 🤮 This may(?) be something different. See below.
• I can find effectively fuck-all about this company that I’m supposed to be trusting with my privacy.

Edit: So to be clear, they say it’s a fork of Element, but that doesn’t tell me the license or give me the source code. Trying to find the source code for the messaging app just returns this crap about their an AI service which is just ChatGPT wrapper number 486 billion.

Edit 2: Okay, I think the confusion over this AI BS is that there’s lux.chat – ChatGPT wrapper garbage – and luxchat – an Element fork. I have no idea if these are related. If they are, this information is too hard to find. If they aren’t… I mean maybe if you had more information on your website, luxchat, I wouldn’t have to scour the Internet to find that information and run into lux.chat.

Edit 3: The FAQ clears literally none of my questions up. Cool.

A starter home?! This home is a finisher home! A shelterer of gods! The GOLDEN GOD!

I am untethered, and my rage knows no bounds!

Is someone upset they can’t fork over more money to the rabidly transphobic piece of shit and the media conglomerate megacorp?