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Is your perception of a company’s ‘need’ of financial support a good way to decide wether or not to support them? Probably not. If you believe in what they are

• rglullis 6y ago
  No. But the whole idea of my support behind Matrix is that it allows for federation and distribution of power among different companies and entities. If the development of Matrix is somewhat secured and if Matthew and the team has already been compensated for their work, I'd rather support other players than concentrating it further on Matthew's hands.
  • Arathorn 6y ago
    Development of core Matrix is somewhat secured via funding from Element and donations, but Element is not yet profitable/sustainable as a company. Until it is, I wouldn’t be doing my job if i didn’t encourage folks to support core Matrix dev by using Element services. That said, folks should absolutely donate to non-core-team Matrix projects like Conduit or Nheko or Dimension etc too, to support the hetrogenity of the ecosystem and keep it healthy and balanced. And once Element is sustainable (and by extension the Matrix.org Foundation funding is stable), the balance should shift even further towards ensuring the rest of the ecosystem is successful.