To make it clear to those who are misunderstanding: that’s a list of companies that host matrix for you. They do it at a good price.
If you and your friends chip, it’ll be a few bucks a pop per month to have your own private server with voice chat rooms and video chat rooms.
It’s all opensource and contributes to the ecosystem. Best of all, no age verification because the data is yours.
It’s not strange at all that the feature hasn’t been implemented. Not enough people donate, so there isn’t enough funding to implement features. Most people wait around until something is there or pay for closed source stuff. Funding is the major issue. If there were funds, people could spend time to implement such complicated features. Discord had millions in seed funding and has thousands of developer hours sunk into the platform. The developers of element have to juggle element and their jobs.
That is exactly why I’m saying: if you have the money to pay for discord nitro, throw some money Matrix’s way. It’ll benefit us all instead of some money-hungry enshittifiers.