The tight coupling between Element and the Matrix spec allow it to add features at a rate too fast for other clients too keep up; pretty much every Matrix user has to open up Element at some point to perform an action that isn’t supported in any other client.

This is one reason I’ve been slow to adopt Matrix. Spent too much time trying to find a server that doesn’t require captcha and the constant nagging to verify your device on multiple machines seems frictional.

Nice to see a gemini version. While tech is catching up with the protocol, it might be good to include the full link rather link text so we can copy it into our gemini client (I couldn’t get the address on mobile since the browser doesn’t know its a link)