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Kaity has just spun up a PieFed instance, which is open to anyone that wants to try it out.

PieFed is part of the "Threadiverse" along with lemmy and mbin. If you are already reading this in lemmy, then you already know what PieFed is about.

If you're curious to try it out, or if you're just looking for a way to avoid lemmy, you can find it at https://piefed.blahaj.zone/

Like our lemmy instance, we have set PieFed applications to require manual approval, but if you're already a member of our lemmy instance, you can get auto approved by our modbot by quoting your registration code somewhere in your application.

Cross-posted from "Kerala’s first-ever light tram project, inspired by Brisbane model, proposed for Kochi’s non-metro areas" by @destructdisc@lemmy.world in !fuckcars@lemmy.world

Thanks to Kaity Blåhaj PIx and Blåhaj Tube are up and running!

Feel free to check them out!

For now, it's just me moderating, so applications to join may not be instant. If we start to get busy, we'll onboard some more mods in the future.

Enjoy!

If you're interested, you will need to have a blahaj account and have participated in this or similar communities prior to this post.

DM me or reply here!

Clayfield, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - April 2025

#bird #brisbane #meanjin #honeyEater #noisyMiner #manorinaMelanocephala #manorina #australianBirds

I have to admit, I'm pretty excited. The 100MP main camera is nice and all, but that 50MP telephoto lens is what I'm really excited about!

This post is "FYI only" for blahaj lemmy members. It is not a debate, and is not intended for non blahaj lemmy users to weigh in and offer opinions.

I recently received reports of a feddit.uk user espousing transphobia. Specifically, this was a feddit.uk user refusing to use the word cis, repeating the "adult human female" dog whistle, and claiming that trans women are not women. I approached a member of the feddit.uk admin team and raised my concerns and sought clarification of their stance on posts like this, where the transphobia is mostly dogwhistles, and "civil disagreement" on the validity of trans folk.

I was told by the feddit.uk admin that their preferred response is this kind of transphobia is to "sort it out through discussion and voting". However, the comments in question are currently more upvoted than downvoted, and little "sorting out" has occurred. The posts remain in place.

At this point, the admin stopped responding to my messages despite being active elsewhere on lemmy. When it became clear they were ignoring my messages and had no intention of removing the posts in question, I made the decision to defederate the instance.

I know some folk agree with the feddit.uk admins approach of pushback through discussion and voting, but this instance is not designed to be that kind of space. Blahaj lemmy is meant to be a place where we can avoid the rampant transphobia universally visible on nearly every other social media platform, and where we can exist without needing to debate our right to do so.

Buddina, Sunshine Coast, Australia - April 2025

#bird #australianBirds #brushTurkey #scrubTurkey #Alectura #AlecturaLathami

Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - April 2025

#bird #birds #AustralianBirds #swan #blackSwan #Cygnus #CygnusAtratus

Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - April 2025

#bird #birds #swallow #WelcomeSwallow #AustralianBirds #Hirundo #HirundoNeoxena