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Cake day: July 24th, 2025

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  • Let’s agree to disagree. My family knows I love them, and they know I’m fucking paranoid. So their options were limited, either insta Signal, or just call me on the phone (jmp.chat number via Cheogram), I got off of the WhatsApp wagon and, while some of them resisted at first, they started to feel left out because they were not part of the signal family group. So, they all still use WhatsApp and they all use Signal now. Same with my friends. Every single one of my oldest friends didn’t think about it twice and just installed signal (on ay easier than my family, as expected), and those that didn’t happen to be all the acquaintances, not one of them was ever considered a friend by me. And my mental health is so much better because of this.



  • Hardly a ‘hive mind’ situation when everything governments all over the world and big corporations have shown, time and again, that they will step up the surveillance any chance they get, try to get away with it, and if they do (which happens all too often), step it up yet again, rinse and repeat.

    But you follow your optimistic way of view, at least you’ll be happier than most of us until you see how right we’ve been all along.


  • Know what? I’ll bite. Let’s have a civil discussion how this is either actually beneficial to ‘save the kids’ or, on the other hand, this is just the first step of a process designed to force full surveillance at the OS level, now that people are finally starting to care a bit about their privacy.

    If it is to do something to keep the kids away from harm (you mentioned to reduce manipulation of kids) how does spinning 3 wheels with numbers, attached to no verification whatsoever, help? This is that useless ‘Are you over 18?’ pop-up all over again, where you just click ‘yes’ and move on with whatever it is you wanted to get away with. So, on that front, unless this is designed to put undue extra responsibility and work on the OS developers, this makes no sense (of course, I’m more than willing to hear you counter this theory).

    Now, if it’s just that first step, the politicians trying to see what else they can get away with pushing on the population, one step at a time, next they will add ‘the OS will require a picture of the user holding an ID to confirm the entered date of birth, but it will remain local, the OS will just reply yes or no to the apps requesting the info’. Then it’ll be ‘will be sent to a government database for safeguarding’, and so on until you no longer can get away from not showing your face and ID to everyone out there.

    Anyway, which one makes more sense to you, honestly?










  • OK, ready to be a guinea pig for another nice self-hosted service. Just let me know what you want to test from now on, and I’ll freely do so, break it if necessary, and try to put it back together.

    Thanks, this is pretty cool.

    Also, as others have mentioned, a bit of on how to configure the .env file and other modifications to the docker-compose.yml is always a good idea to make sure people that may not be as tech savvy have some idea on how to troubleshoot. For example, in the .env file the instructions on the ‘App URL’ are clear to me, and evidently to you, but I know of many that would not be able to get it to work over a cloudflare tunnel, for example, only because they wouldn’t touch this part.

    Just something to keep in mind.