They renamed Riot to Element in the wake of the George Floyd protests in the United States. It's the same code base.
Matrix is a protocol. Synapse is the primary server implementation of Matrix written in Python.
Matrix is a protocol. Synapse is the primary server implementation of Matrix written in Python.
I bet you were even more bummed though.
It's interesting seeing a myth build around your reasons for the name change already, with the blog post still up. Makes me wonder though how native speakers would have felt about the name after the protests.
I'm not a native speaker, so I don't feel the connotations of the name.
It's worth nothing that the conflict with Riot Games over trademark rights was also a motivating factor.