Just “transphobe” works better, tbh.

Not all banks. Many provide a scanner for the user.

Why not get a bank pass for this kind of stuff, and do banking on websites if you need to?

Defederation with Threads should be a priority. They’ll attempt an Embrace, Extend, Extinguish tactic.

Sounds like the roads need to be made safer then.

Typically people don’t fall by their own, unless if you’re talking about the elderly (who are more brittle), or the very young (who drive on low tricycles to learn, and a fall then isn’t as bad). A bicycle also typically is much less fast than a car, so when you fall, the damage is also much less bad.

By far most bicycle accidents are caused by other drivers (especially car drivers) not watching out or driving recklessly near them. Or because bicycling paths aren’t cleared/salted in winter.

If you wanted to tackle accidents better, you’d prohibit smartphone usage while in traffic altogether for everyone (navigation excepted), and support separated, well-maintained bicycle lanes with protection rails.

There’s a huge difference between falling and falling because a car drove you over. Don’t blame the bicyclist overmuch. Blame the carcentric infrastructure instead.

No thanks, this is the same stupid reasoning as “pedestrians should wear hi-vis vests when walking”. It offloads responsibility from car drivers to be responsible, to bicyclists and pedestrians. A decent, separated bicycle infrastructure goes much further in terms of safety than “just wear helmet lmao”.

The ONE mixed-use zoning ban I’d uphold is the one of large polluting factories and data centres near residential neighbourhoods.

Still baffling they were allowed there in the first place. Friends I knew who visited there, had to put on bicycle helmets to bike in the friggin’ park.

The new one looks 10x nicer, woah

Mainwalks are great, but I agree with what you said.

not anti-car, but pro-humans.

carbrainers like to shout that you need stroads everywhere and to kick kids from bikes

but, if you want fewer traffic jams, a calmer driving experience, you NEED high-quality public transit, separated bicycle lanes, etc. everywhere.

I’d explain it like this. I hope that that works.

An easy analogy

View the fediverse like a few forests, linked by many wild bridges. PieFed might be one forest, Peertube and Mastodon yet other ones. These forests have a lot of different trees.

An instance is like a single tree. And a community a branch. Users are leaves. You can help keep the tree alive, by giving donations as nutrition.

Some parts of the fediverse allow leaves to move and join another tree.

Traditional social media, on the other hand, are comparable to a single, isolated and big tree, far away from other trees. You cannot jump to other trees, and cannot easily go to a forest.

More technical explanation

Social media are built on ‘protocols’. Protocols tell for example social media what they can do and how to ‘talk’ to each other.

The Fediverse is a group of social media that use ActivityPub, Diaspora, or AT Protocol. These three protocols allow something special that ‘traditional’ social media like Facebook and Instagram don’t: they can communicate across each other, without using a centralised server for hosting content.

It’s comparable to email; you can mail to someone not using your mail provider, and vice versa.

On one of these fediverse social media, people self-host or join a self-hosted group. Such a group is called an ‘instance’. Each instance functions independently and can have its own policies.

Instances (and users) can decide with which other instances they allow their own content to be seen. They can also decide what instances their users can see content from. An instance that is connected to another instance is said to be ‘federated’ with the latter. If that is not the case, they are ‘defederated’. Instances are supported through donations.

Within each instances, there are many communities. There’s a community for Linux, a community for cat pictures, a community for nature, and so on. Users can subscribe to many of them, receiving their content.

the cia would try anything, but hornyposting isn’t their main thing. They’d try that with high-profile individuals.

I recall them having made a fake sex video of Sukarno (the first leader of Indonesia), and trying to blackmail him. Upon seeing it, he said he was delighted and wanted more, lol. Here’s a source.

For politics I just use a keyword block. If it contains terms related to that orange or such, I block.

Piefed does have a nsfl tag option, a bot filter, as well moving communities to another instance.

Imho, those are the three big things that most fediverse places should have. Being able to move to another instance is a gamechanger, should an instance disappear or get seized by asshats.

I would actually make the bot filter on by default. Is this the case?

For piefed, my main criticisms are these;

Voting Privacy – Votes can be private (not federated); in meme communities, upvotes don’t affect reputation (optional).

Enabling private votes may make it easier for bots, but as these votes are not federated, it should not affect what other users see, I think. Upvotes not affecting reputation in meme communities is an issue because this way someone could make a far-right community and call it a meme community, and get off scot-free. How do Piefed devs tackle this?

Likewise;

Default Comment Collapsing – Comments at -10 score or below are collapsed automatically.

Low Reputation Indicator – Identifies consistently downvoted users.

This can be an issue, with bots en masse downvoting comments to have them be less visible. How is it ensured that the bot filter would work, without far-reaching measures like “age verification”?

my perspective? nah, hornypost all you want (keep it to nsfw communities tho if it’s “hard” nsfw as opposed to “soft”) - that makes it easier to sort.

or use a nsfw tag for the post

I avoid harshly criticising the left, while continuing to do so for liberals (but still being welcoming for the; the wider the antifascist front, the better), and outright rejecting far-right.

Keep in mind that infighting was often initiated by the CIA, in order to undermine the Black Panthers. Likewise we may see such attempts.

i encourage party vanguardists to support anarchists and other free leftists. the stronger the left, the better

I disagree, you def would need to block the worst places. A good new-user friendly instance would block far-right and authoritarian content.

Bicycle should be tied to public transit, the one at the bike place should be a motor driver.

Electricity, we’ve got electric tractors. For electricity charging we got it from solar, wind, water, and nuclear.