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And you only get limited servers per account. And archive.org coverage is important since thats the one location that we can rely on for old data

Element is only one of the clients for the matrix network. And as long as it follows the standard you can use other clients, too

But even this has limits, since sometimes the data can be necessary for a service (for example, you might be unable to get invoice data erased before X years, as a legal requirement)

But then it still needs to be marked as a "DO NOT TOUCH". you aren't allowed to use it then for any other purpose.