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  • Welcome!

    For the rules, could you use different formatting? A lot of users use mobile apps, and some of them don’t format markdown the way Lemmy does. The spoiler tag in particular doesn’t get rendered in a lot of them.

    For example, this is what I see in Boost:

    Perhaps you can do something like

    ## Rules
    
    1: 😇 Be Nice!
    
    - Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: **friendly**
    
    2: 👶 Keep it at PG
    

    Which will format like this


    Rules

    1: 😇 Be Nice!

    • Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly

    2: 👶 Keep it at PG


    You could also shorten some of them to make it more likely that people will read them. For example, moving this to the bottom of the rules section, or taking it out entirely:

    Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanantly banned from posting.

    I also liked the old sidebar’s guidance on “complete stories” because it sums up what this community is intended for and differentiates it from “comics” and “memes”. I don’t know if it needs to be stated explicitly, but you could potentially include it right at the top with the description line.

    I’m also happy to help out if the moderation load gets too much to handle. Feel free to add my LW account if at any point the team could use more hands: https://lemmy.world/u/otter







  • It was a full replacement for me, but I was only using it for personal use.

    If you need a unique and specific package, you might have trouble finding it since the LaTeX ecosystem has been around for decades longer. The other drawback would be collaboration and interacting with journals, where the people that grew up with LaTeX might be resistant to changing to something new. I’m not personally in the research side now, so I can’t comment on it much further. I would assume that adoption also varies by the field of research.











  • Music don’t contain watermarks that ruin the experience in the work itself.

    They do, and I find it a lot more obnoxious than a label in the borders on an image

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

    It’s available in text attribution/ metadata base.

    When I download a song, the file comes with the metadata. When I download an image, the creator information is not there. When images are shared, it’s very often the image alone and not a link to the page with the image.

    Also artists have been leaving a signature on their art for as long as we’ve had art. All people are asking is that you share the art as it was created instead of modifying each piece before you share it. By doing that, you’re deciding for other people what is best.

    This honestly feels like a good opportunity for you to make a separate community and post your edits there so that the people who prefer that format can subscribe to it.




  • 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]


  • Nice, I had no idea

    I tried out Fladder, Moonfin, and Wholphin

    • Fladder does load, but it crashes on certain pages for me. My guess is that my hardware isn’t powerful enough to handle something that it’s trying to do
    • Moonfin and Wholfin are both beautiful with an intuitive UI. Between the two, I liked Wholfin the best. It has a preview when customizing the home page, which is very helpful compared to the back and forth guess and test with the other ones. I also prefer it’s UI and default settings over the others

    I replaced Findroid with Wholphin on ours