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Why? An open-core enterprise communication tool promises to maybe in the future implement a non-standard protocol of another enterprisy communication tool also struggling with wider adoption...
It is not even clear from the announcement if it will be possible to openly federate or if it will be like other enterprise Matrix deployments that are shut off from the wider network.
Rocket chat had closed federation before, so likely very little changes with this, other than that some enterprise customers have the choice between Element and Rocket Chat clients in their networks in the future.
The real community federation standards are XMPP and ActivityPub. If you want to break the monopolies of the big social media companies then it is those you should support, not some badly done enterprise Slack clone like Matrix or Rocket Chat.
How is Matrix enterprise-y and struggling with adoption? Many hackers I know use it, Lemmy has a Matrix field in your profile which lets you send Matrix messages directly and there's no vendor lock in due to the fact the protocol and all implementations are open.
Matrix is ran by a company (with links to the Israel government).
can you back it up with evidence?
amdocs was an early founder and funder for matrix development, now they may remain as a shareholder
the matrix foundation isn't majority element employees, I'd say the situation is better than with most open source projects developed by commercial entities