matrix.org allows 100 mb attachment. It is federated, which means you can move your data to your server if you like later. There are many clients and server implementations now and it is e2ee.
that is no joke, remember back in 80 or 70, when she recalled the election results in Australia. Then they had the election again, and of course this time the other guy won.
in academia that is divided into quantitative vs qualitative. While most of my earlier few decades of my live have being focused on quantitative part, more and more as I age do I begin to value the qualitative part more and more. Often performances of company, organizations and individuals are not measurable in quantitative ways.
For sure, but this is infinity better than some close sourced project (like hardware driver, old iphone), where the user are stuck because the code is NOT open. What you are mentioning seems like a business and funding issue in general for software development. However, in now days and age everything (beside private key) ought to be open sourced. That is how a transparent work will work. And as we can lack of transparency has caused way more problem than problem such as oVirt project