Mastodon isn’t chat. Their Messenger chat is manned with people that answer your questions.
Mass transit is necessary here because the city has an old layout not designed for cars and so it wouldn’t be able to function if everyone had to drive.
Cities shouldn’t be designed for cars. They should be designed for people. I get it. They’ve added a tax and that’s inconvenient. I agree.
I live in a European city with a medieval layout. I’m happy they started banning cars. Our city is more liveable without than with cars.
I use Droid-ify F-Droid does that indeed. Droid-ify is an overall nicer client to acces different repositories.
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.looker.droidify/