I think in order for this to work, you would need to make it so that the server admins cannot see the contents of the communication. It wouldn’t work with public content

At that point, you might be better off using something like Matrix or a similar encrypted chat option.

If the other party doesn’t want to communicate with you, then what are you trying to achieve?

I think I’m missing something from your premise. Who are you trying to connect to in this case?

If you’re hosting it yourself, you wouldn’t be at the mercy of anyone else. You would get full control over your communication experience, along with any consequences that come along with that.

I haven’t seen that yet

There is a popup explaining how it works when you install it. I asked something similar and the dev replied saying that they are looking into alternatives that don’t upload the image anywhere: https://lemmy.ca/comment/22876710

Tldr from the pop-up:

• it uses litterbox by default for the auto delete, and catbox when that fails
• it needed to add uploads since apps aren’t allowed to programmatically upload to search engines
• it recommends against scanning anything sensitive since Google/Bing are keeping it too

I don’t have the latest version since I got the fdroid release, but the GitHub release mentions a number of things that are now processed locally (ex. Text, QR, phone numbers)

This is incorrect. They also have your full name and address by extension

I didn’t suggest otherwise. This was about whether they can correlate that to additional information. I am already assuming that the US government might try to maliciously compromise the servers, without needing the pretense of national security laws.

I’m not an expert in cryptography or Signals codebase, but my understanding is that the client app uses separate connections to verify the session (something that can be tied to your phone number on a compromised server) and to send a message out. The initial contact discovery process can leak info if you are searching for specific phone numbers, and this could be mitigated by using the QR code or usernames to get an ID directly. The actual pre key fetch is sent as a separate request not tied to your session verification. So outside of timing attacks, it shouldn’t let Signal know who I am talking to day to day even if they know that I have connected to the person at one point.

I think it’s cool that Simplex and Matrix allow selhosting, and especially Simplex’s 2 hop technique. That should make it much more difficult for someone trying to map things out. However if the average person is going to be using the default servers, I don’t see how a compromised server is any less of a problem than with Signal’s ones.

I recommend Signal to non-technical users trying to get away from Facebook/Instagram/whatsapp. I might start recommending Simplex too if it gets popular enough and goes through a similar level of scrutiny that Signal had. I’m already comfortable using a variety of chat platforms / self hosting for myself.

The lack of a phone number requirement does limit the extent of social graph mapping. I hope signal will do away with that requirement as they’ve promised to for some time. The risk though is spam, which is already a problem now that signal is getting popular.

Just read the first article I posted, it gets into all this.

I did look over it again, and I still find the CIA section to be silly. I’ll refer back to these old comments from myself and someone else:

https://lemmy.ca/comment/5401873

https://lemmy.ca/post/16397504/7661724

The 2nd article is the signal CEO Meredith Whitaker interviewing with lawfare, which is a US defense industry think-tank.

Again, I would say this is a big leap. The CEO agreeing to an interview with a think tank that has ties to the defense industry is not the same thing as Signal having ties to the defense industry. She has done many interviews talking about Signal, with a variety of orgs of different ownership and politics

Unfortunately their funding situation is dire, they’re shutting down in 90 days

https://getsession.org/donate

Did you mean to link a different article, that one doesn’t say anything about defense industry ties (from my quick skim). It does talk about how phone numbers are no longer required when connecting to someone else.

Signal DOES have my phone number, but they can’t tell my government anything other than

• yes I use Signal
• yes I connected to it today

This becomes even less important as the platform gets popular. I know some friends who work in healthcare that report that they’re switching to Signal (and WhatsApp unfortunately) as an alternative to texting/phone calls for staff/department group chats and non-patient related communications.

That sounds good!

This is cool! My only concern is with the image uploads. I’d like to be able to stop it from uploading to the fallback since I don’t want the images to stick around permanently. Or one more confirmation before uploading, in case I trigger it accidentally.

Its weird that google sends the bottom gesture to their own assistant even when you set a different default.

• double tapping the status bar opens this new one
• power button method opens this new one
• bottom of screen opens Google’s annoying interface

I think he still has majority voting power in Facebook

There is deepwiki, which can give you a similar overview. You will need to do the subsequent animations yourself afterwards

We are not running Anubis, although we do block a large number of AI/LLM companies through IP addresses. Each time we block a new one, it makes a noticeable difference in the performance graphs.

https://lemmy.nz/ and https://quokk.au/ are running Anubis, and so those admins may be able to offer insight :)

Weird, it loads instantly for me. Maybe you have some settings that are blocking the page?

The benefit is that the other microblogging platforms might also implement or improve threadiverse support if this goes well. We could get more activity and users from the people who are only on a microblogging platform

Did you try Calibre Web or Calibre Web Automated

Maybe CWA is what you’re looking for?

https://github.com/crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated

So they don’t explicitly mention “chronic” Lyme disease in the video, and I couldn’t find any other articles from looking up the names mentioned, but it does sound like that’s what is being talked about here.

What I would be curious about is if these patients got the antibody test. If they didn’t, that seems like a relatively easy policy fix. Bacteria can spread to other countries and go undetected, and the test isn’t that invasive compared to the peace of mind it would give patients. Same

However if they did get the test and it came back negative, then it gets more complicated. Doctors don’t want to put someone on treatment for something that can’t be detected. Every medication has side effects and you would end up harming someone without evidence of a benefit. Where it gets messy is when people go for “diagnosis” or “treatment” abroad.

I did actually find this from last October

https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-11/australian-government-response-to-the-senate-community-affairs-references-committee-report-access-to-diagnosis-and-treatment-for-tick-borne-diseases.pdf

 Overview

The Australian Government appreciates the opportunity to respond to the Senate
Community Affairs References Committee list of recommendations on the Access to
diagnosis and treatment for people in Australia with tick-borne diseases. The Government
thanks the Committee and the various stakeholders for their valuable and thoughtful input
to the Inquiry.
The Government acknowledges the concerns of patients who are facing issues accessing
diagnosis and treatment with tick-borne illnesses. In early 2013, the Department of Health,
Disability and Ageing began engaging with patients, medical practitioners, and advocacy
groups to discuss concerns about Lyme disease. In 2016, the department engaged and
addressed the Senate Inquiry recommendations into Growing evidence of an emerging tick-
borne disease that causes a Lyme-like illness (2016 Inquiry) through a range of measures
such as public education materials, research and guidance for medical practitioners. As a
result, the department has gained a deeper appreciation and growing concern for those
Australians experiencing issues relating to tick-borne diseases.
This response addresses the specific recommendations raised in the current Senate
Committee's Report. The Government remains open-minded about the cause of the various
complexes which manifest as a range of chronic debilitating symptoms. The best outcome
for patients and health practitioners is to not draw conclusions based on poor levels of
evidence, but to consider each patient thoroughly in a multidisciplinary medical approach
that makes the best use of clinical expertise and available diagnostic skills and technology.
The Government remains engaged with the patient and medical community to continue to
find, share and understand the evidence associated with tick-borne diseases. The
Government hopes its continued work with clinical medicine and research communities will
result in answers and relief for patients and their families

Do you have an article about the case you’re talking about?

There is a difference between Lyme disease and chronic Lyme disease. My guess is that this case has something to do with that difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease

Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a tick-borne disease caused by species of Borrelia bacteria, transmitted by blood-feeding ticks in the genus Ixodes.[4][9][10] It is the most common disease spread by ticks in the Northern Hemisphere.[11][8] Infections are most common in the spring and early summer.[4] Infection is treatable with antibiotics. Most treated patients experience a full recovery. For some patients recovery may not be immediate or complete, resulting in long-term effects.[12] Early detection and prompt treatment are associated with more favorable outcomes.[13]

Diagnosis is based on a combination of symptoms, history of tick exposure, and possibly testing for specific antibodies in the blood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_Lyme_disease

Despite numerous studies, there is no evidence that symptoms associated with CLD are caused by any persistent infection.[4] The symptoms attributed to chronic Lyme are in many cases likely due to fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome.[5][6] Fibromyalgia can be triggered by an infection, and antibiotics are not a safe or effective treatment for post-infectious fibromyalgia.[7] Fatigue, joint and muscle pain are also experienced by a minority of people following antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease.[3]

A number of alternative health products are promoted for chronic Lyme disease,[8] of which possibly the most controversial and harmful is long-term antibiotic therapy, particularly intravenous antibiotics.[9][10] Recognised authorities advise against long-term antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease, even where some symptoms persist post-treatment.[11][12][13]

In the United States, after disciplinary proceedings by state medical licensing boards, a subculture of “Lyme literate” physicians has successfully lobbied for specific legal protections, exempting them from the standard of care and science-based treatment guidelines. Such legislation has been criticised as an example of “legislative alchemy”, the process whereby pseudomedicine is legislated into practice.[14][15][16] Some doctors view the promotion of chronic Lyme disease as an example of health fraud.[17]

Chronic Lyme disease is distinct from untreated late-stage Lyme disease, which can cause arthritis, peripheral neuropathy and/or encephalomyelitis. Chronic Lyme disease is also distinct from post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) when symptoms linger after standard antibiotic treatments.[18][19] PTLDS is estimated to occur in less than 5% of people who had Lyme disease and were treated.[20] In contrast to these recognized medical conditions, the promotion of chronic Lyme disease has been accused of being health fraud.[17] In many cases there is no objective evidence that people who believe they have chronic Lyme have ever been infected with Lyme disease: standard diagnostic tests for infection are often negative.[2][21]