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Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet (media.piefed.social)
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[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Message metadata - such as sender, recipient, device ID, and timestamps - is not encrypted at the transport layer, and in many cases remains visible to the homeserver

https://wire.com/en/blog/matrix-not-safe-eu-data-privacy

[–] Ontimp@feddit.org 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Wire wrote that article in summer last year to prevent the German IT-Planning Council from adopting Matrix as the communications layer for its consolidated interfederal government-to-citizen messaging infrastructure in the public administration.

So be aware that, to my knowledge, this article is not a good-faith tech blog post but part of public affairs campaign / lobbying attempt.

Would be neat to have meta data encrypted in Matrix, but it's not a deal breaker for most use cases imo.

[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Agreed, but metadata not being encrypted remains a fact. Sure, metadata of a single message might not mean much, but when combined with metadata of many messages from many users you can find out a lot about a person and their habits. Especially when cross-referencing with other data sources (social media of other users, phone location, etc.).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tL8_caB35Pg

[–] Ontimp@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Absolutely, it's definitely one of the major areas work on the Matrix standard is needed.

There is an MSC (= a spec change proposal) from September 2025 where the folks at Element proposed a solution for how to do this going forward: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3414?ref=element.io

This blog article explains it more clearly: https://element.io/blog/hiding-room-metadata-from-servers/

[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 1 points 6 minutes ago

Thank you very much for these links. I really like the ideas Matrix + Element, and I think they have the best shot of making something very usable. Hopefully this gets implemented one day and I can actually make the switch!