Hi @drpitman
Thanks for this.
Element sounds really promising. The benchmarks you’ve put it through are really impressive.
As you’ll see from our Grants 2024 plans here, we are focused on building with our protocols (Radicle or Drips).
My initial thoughts on this are:
I don’t see a tight coupling between this work and building on either of our protocols (Radicle or Drips).
This work seems very specific to Element, which makes it narrow in scope. The big assumption underlying a lot of this is that Element will be adopted and have a large user base (based on the benchmarks, this doesn’t seem unreasonable!). But until that happens, is there a broader problem we could solve? e.g. rather than pushing Element, could we solve package management/sharing and funding more generally?
While Element looks awesome, due to the 2 points above, this work falls outside of the scope of what we’d like to focus on at the moment.