Not only is there a rust version of synapse, it has been existing for years before Element decided to fork it unilaterally [1]. Just to be clear: the current development on dendrite has mostly not been done by element, but by a volunteer community.
The rugpull can be observed here [2] by the playbook so many others have used:
- Create commercial offering
- Add some breakwards compatibility breaking shit to the repo
- Declare the project dead
- Old users are now basically forced into "the new" product
The rugpull can be observed here [2] by the playbook so many others have used:
- Create commercial offering
- Add some breakwards compatibility breaking shit to the repo
- Declare the project dead
- Old users are now basically forced into "the new" product
[1] https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/06/future-of-synapse-dendrit...
[2] https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/issues