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.

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.

If you use the AIO it comes with the high performance backend already set up afaik.

I run nextcloud using the official release without the docket AIO image, but you can just run the high performance backend from docker. This is what I do on my nextcloud server. https://arnowelzel.de/en/nextcloud-talk-high-performance-backend-with-docker

It’s pretty straightforward, just run docker container, if you use a reverse proxy much sure the signaling server is properly configured on the reverse proxy and then modify the next cloud settings to point to the self hosted HPB.

If OP wants voice and video chat like they say they’d have to host synapse and use element afaik.i don’t think any of the other home servers support matrix calling. Cinny and fluffychat don’t support voice or video calls. Fluffychat has it as an “option” but it’s currently broken last time I tried it. Schildi chat might work for voice and video since it’s an element fork. I’ve not tried it so I don’t know for sure.

Do you know if there is a more up to date description of xmpp e2ee without having to read the spec. Specifically interested in stuff like how much metadata is leaked.

IIRC only Synapse supports video/voice calls and only Element & Element X reliably work for video/voice calls.

Was this images that were auto uploading from a mobile phone? I think the bug was a permission issue in Android, if you don’t grant location access it can’t get any of the meta data of the photo (iirc).

you’re probably right as to why.

I’ll note that on my gaming desktop I decided to try out Debian instead of my usual choice of Fedora and its worked fine for gaming with latest gen CPU and GPU. I did install the steam flatpak which will have a newer version of Mesa. I think this is a good middle ground for a system you don’t want to mess with too much.

You can try switching to a Canadian accent, it’s pretty similar to the American accent as long as you aren’t going for a French Canadian or newfound land accent. Also writing Canada sometimes uses British spelling and sometimes uses American depending on the word.

Gabe has been public about supporting Linux as a gaming platform but I’m not really sure how much he is involved in on the day to day. If you follow what they’re doing Pierre-Loup (PL) seems to be driving most of their Linux work.

I think he’s referring just to the letters OGC in the font they chose.

The 2022 election was an actual leadership election. This was just a leadership review. People who did vote weren’t voting for a new leader. They were voting on if they still think PP should be leader. There wasn’t candidates to vote for. It was a yes or no question. If he lost this election there would be a leadership election similar to the 2022 one you reference. The 2022 election was triggered by the previous leader stepping down just like the NDP leadership election has been triggered by Jagmeet stepping down.

I do think the system is a bit strange that they have a leadership review and it’s handled by delagtes who only get picked if they are voted in at meetings in the different electoral districts. Makes it easy to stay in as leader if you can convince the right people to come.

But again what I said before stands. If the NDP did a leadership review at a convention they could do the same thing as the conversatives here cause the constitution allows for it.

Is this true? I can’t find a source about only delegates being allowed to vote. An ex-conversative friend of mine was saying that they usually send the ballots out by mail to any member in good standing.

Edit: doing more reading I don’t think its 100% fair to compare this to NDP election. This was a leadership review not a leadership election. If PP lost this then a leadership election would happen that works basically the same as NDP leadership election in terms of who’s allowed to vote. Second the NDP has similar rules about delegates to NDP conventions as far as I can tell. You can read both their constitutions here

https://xfer.ndp.ca/2023/Documents/Constitution EN-2021.pdf

https://cpcassets.conservative.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/30091347/c5855d471341cf9.pdf

I gave SimpleX a try and the lack of multi device sync was annoying https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/issues/444 . If you want to use it across your phone and computer you basically can’t without having two distinct accounts for each device.

Jami works better in this regard. its also P2P no accounts, just a cartographic key as your identifier and a optional name server if you want to map keys to usernames (doesn’t need to be used). Cross device sync works pretty well in my experience. IOS is another story though. They have an app but I had a lot of issues with people on IOS not receiving message notifications.

By desktop do you mean the jitsi call widget thing? Instead of the native call support that I believe element x uses?

Do the voice call and video features work with continuwuity?

Seems interesting, some problems I see. The author seems to have forgotten that not everywhere has surnames and some places have multiple surnames. Would have been better to just have a “name field”. Would make this more universal.

Lol this is ridiculous after last week’s comment from trump

“Well, it’s OK. That’s what he should be doing,” Trump told reporters Friday at the White House. “If you can get a deal with China, you should do that.”

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/autos/article/trump-if-carney-can-get-a-deal-with-china-he-should-do-that/