Yeah I didn't hear about it at all. Too bad it seems it was only for high schoolers.

Isn't there also a decent tech sector in Kanata? I imagine what's happening with AI bubble isn't helping with hiring there.

On the plus (if you really think this is a plus), there are few defence companies in Kanata. Perhaps they will hire more with the governments increase in defence spending.

Not a good discord replacement but setting up nextcloud talk (simple p2p voice chat) and then the high performance backend (better supports video/voice calls between 3+ people) was relatively easy. We use it among my family now to have group calls instead of relying on facebook messenger.

I'll preface saying I'm not a security expert but my understanding Is sometime in 2025 they changed the encryption scheme in matrix following a lot of disclosures of how it was broken to a new scheme that uses MLS and supports forward secrery. I haven't seen a post yet from security experts discrediting it yet. It sounds like it still has issues from what you're saying, about soatok disclosing some new problems with it.

On the call side they have element call instead of relying on a jisti widget (but only a few client support it). Afaik it supports encryption. They talked about it last year at the matrix conference https://cfp.2025.matrix.org/matrix-conf-2025/talk/BQZHAH/

You're right, I was wrong about signal using MLS. I recall reading it somewhere but can't find the source now.

As for my response, it was about forward secrecy which they do claim to have now. Yeah I wouldn't rely on matrix E2EE right now, and until its been seriously audited and replaced with something security experts agree on.

For a discord replacement (with public not E2EE rooms) it seems to be the best replacement just because that's where communities are right now. XMPP+OMEMO is not that interesting to me because I don't know of any communities that are on there or other users to be a Discord replacement and its E2EE story is not as good as Signal to be a Signal replacement.

For a signal replacement I'm not sure SimpleX or Briar are there yet. SimpleX doesn't have multi device support last time I checked which is annoying if you're used to useing signal on your phone + desktop. Any Briar doesn't work on IOS, so if you chat with anyone who has an iphone they are SOL.

Does matrix have forward secrery now since the switch to MLS? (I.E. the same encryption scheme Singal uses) https://matrix.org/blog/2025/06/dispelling-myths/

They still have a large metadata leak that to my understanding can't be fixed until they introduce stuff like pseudo anonymous user handles and room handles.