Well done Scotland, for drafting and actually enforcing this law.
It's no surprise that this woman, and the others pictured in the article, are all of a demographic that they're not going to have to actually make maternal healthcare decisions for themselves.
Towards the end of this video, he says "the United States of America is the longest-standing democracy in the world". My geopolitics are a bit rough, so genuine question: is it?
No. The app was forked from a Lemmy app (Thunder), so there's not much PieFed-specific in it (e.g. there's also no support for Polls). The exception is that it supports post / comment subscribing (I was notified of your comment, even though I'm not the OP of this post).
I created a new instance for testing the app, and I didn't create any Topics (partly laziness, partly because the whole area is being re-evaluated for user-created Topics, aka Feeds).
The app will lag behind the site in features, 'cos adding stuff for direct HTML rendering will always be easier than adding stuff that's got to come through an API.
I started a new account, on a new instance, and the very first notification I got was for a spam message from that 'fediverse chick' person. It really made that "it's like email" connection feel complete.
PieFed and Lemmy are different software platforms for interacting with the Fediverse (of which they are both separate parts). It's a bit like how Spotify and Tidal are both for streaming music, and you can see the same artists on both, but you can't use Spotify's app to sign in to Tidal. PieFed's API is fairly similar to Lemmy's, for the routes that it covers, but not exactly the same, so you can't use Lemmy apps with PieFed, or PieFed apps with Lemmy.
(edit, just 'cos LW is being a bit slow.)
Typically, if you see that one person is being banned from a bunch of communities at the same time, it just means that they are being banned from the instance.
If an admin wants to ban one of their own users, it's a single activity that's federated out, but if they want to ban a remote user, the only way it can be done under the current system is for every community that the banned person has interacted with to ban them. It's an automatic process, triggered by the admin pressing one button once. (it's not a perfect solution, because nothing prevents the banned user interacting with other communities, at least as far as their local instance is concerned).