The flaw in your reasoning is that Matrix is like the web, and Element is like a browser. Just as mainstream folks don’t say “go look at my Chrome site”, but ar

The flaw in your reasoning is that Matrix is like the web, and Element is like a browser. Just as mainstream folks don’t say “go look at my Chrome site”, but are smart enough to say “go look at my website with your web browser”, the same goes for Matrix too. The only reason this doesn’t happen yet is that Matrix clients like Element are still too geeky, and joe public doesn’t care about the advantages of open decentralised e2ee comms. Our plan to fix that is to transform Element’s UX; hide the decentralisation complexities, and let it punch its own weight againdt the centralised alternatives - https://matrix.org/blog/2022/08/15/the-matrix-summer-special-2022 https://matrix.org/blog/2022/08/15/the-matrix-summer-special... has more details. The user would still need to understand it’s talking on an open network though, because that’s what it is. But they don’t need to care that much about it.