Matrix and meta data problems?

General Privacy & Security
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A friend joined me on Matrix and was sending me this link today. Side node: this article is over 4 years old.

I didn’t get it until I saw the amount of metatata on a server running matrix.
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Matrix is federated (which is not peer to peer) and it’s ok that all is end-to-end encrypted, but all the metadata are shared cleartext with all the other matrix server . This means that one malicious server in the federated network can have access to the metadata conversation of other people

I have no idea how much this is true or not. Maybe it is just outdated since 2018 matrix was in an early stage of development. In first case I don’t trust it, but I want to know more. So I want to know your opinion and arguments, since some of you may know more.

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This is probably a question to be asked at the Matrix HQ channel https://matrix.to/#/#matrix:matrix.org or by emailing security@matrix.org

Also worth pointing out that Matrix is undergoing a major rewrite (see: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk), which means that anything from 2018 is probably meaningless.