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Re:Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play ... by jsnell on Saturday January 30, 2021 @12:43PM (#25971105)
Legitimate app yes, but was it actually popular? The cached copy of the Element store page says 100k installs, <2k reviews. Compare to e.g. Signal at 50M installs and 1.2M reviews. Or WhatsApp with 5B installs and 130M reviews.
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Re:Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play ... by Arathorn on Saturday January 30, 2021 @01:23PM (#25971472)
This is in part because we had to replace the app in 2019, and also because it's not the only client for Matrix - many deployments are actually forks of Element (e.g. France's 5.5M user deployment of Tchap).
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