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PoliciesForAll

Welcome to PoliciesForAll, a community for presenting and discussing policies that can be applied broadly by anyone, anywhere, and at any level. The policies should be designed to reduce corruption, improve bottom-up power, add/improve services, reduce financial waste, etc.

“Any arrangement that doesn’t account for bad actors, isn’t a system, it’s a dream.”

Community Suggestions:

(CS1) Try to use “feeling” language. Ex. ‘I feel that this proposal will have issues with …’, ‘My understanding of the situation is …’. I find it cuts out a lot of drama and misunderstandings.
(CS2) Policies should aim to be applicable to any group / city / location in the world.
(CS3) Avoid AI. If you feel strongly enough about a proposal, you should be willing to spend the time to write it up.
(CS4) Provide credit / sources to others whenever possible.
(CS5) Label posts, if possible. Ex. [Idea] (solution in search of a problem), [Policy] (proposed solution to a problem), [Inspiration] (ex. an article), [Discussion], [Problem] (identified problem needing a solution).

Community Rules:

(C1) Be helpful. Collaboration and Constructive Criticism are welcome. Being an asshole is not.
(C2) Avoid discussing politicians or political active individuals (ex. Trump, Musk). There are other communities for that.
(C3) Discussion of political theory is fine, as long as it is respectful.
(C4) If the post is an link, please provide some context / summary / your thoughts about it.
(C5) Links to articles should contain the original article title. Minor edits in [square brackets] for clarity/to reduce clickbait are likely fine.
Instance Rules Apply (listed below).

How to Implement Policy (in order of Difficulty):

Send an email to the local government (alt. call on phone)
Show up in person to city council meetings, public forums, and community events
Set a meeting with a local government official to discuss
Build coalitions to amplify your message
Leverage local media to amplify your voice
Others?

Potentially Related Communities:

inperson@slrpnk.net

Instance Rules (as of 20260505):

(I1) Remember the human! (no harassment, threats, etc.)
(I2) No ban evasion on Piefed.zip or on other instances.
(I3) No endorsement of hate speech
(I4) No self-advertisements or spam
(I5) No link-spamming
(I6) Bots must be proportional
(I7) No vote manipulation
(I8) No content against the law in European Union territories (Finland).
(I9) Any NSFW post must be tagged as NSFW.

Icon (altered): https://pngtree.com/freepng/government-icon_4769156.html

Overview of PoliciesForAll Community

27d 9h ago by piefed.zip/u/Vicinus in policiesforall@piefed.zip

Hello and welcome to Policies For All.

This community is for developing policies that can generally be enacted at any level on government so that an individual (like you) can effect change. The policies are aimed to reduce corruption, improve bottom-up power, add/improve services, reduce financial waste, etc.

Generally the policies are designed to be a little boring so that a strong opposition won’t develop against them. They are also aimed to have a financial incentive, so that communities would have more funds after implementing the policy than before, without a reduction in services. The increased funds should enable the policies to be enacted easier (offering to free up funds isn’t expected to be a hard sell).

I have a number of policies planned or already written up that I’ll be posting over the next couple weeks. I encourage you to help critique them (constructively) and come up with some of your own.

If your interested in getting one or some of these policies implemented where you live and want some help, feel free to through up a post or DM me. The sidebar also contains ways to implement policies in increasing order of difficulty. I plan to reach out to a city council member I’ve spoken to a couple times to see if I can get some of these policies implemented (after I write them all up).

Policies Planned (Name – Writeup Status):

FOSS - Started
Mental Health Responders - Started
Purchasing (Guaranteed for its Lifetime) - Done
Horizontal Support/Collaboration - Not-Started
Community Based Funding - Done
Professionals to Remote Locations - Done
Community Grocery Store - Done
Financial Waste (Incentives to Reduce Department Spending) - Not-Started
Expand Library Economy - Not-Started
Remove Cash Bail – Not-Started
Note: list number isn’t meaningful

In general, the policies have taken a couple hours to think through and writeup. Please feel welcome to add your own whether it’s completely thought out or just an idea of an area to target. You can also share them freely, attribution and direction back to the community would be nice, but not required.

Please read the Community Sidebar rules before posting/commenting. The rules aim to create a constructive environment. Lastly, welcome I hope we can make some positive policy changes together :)

[Policy] Expanded Library Economy

21d 7h ago by piefed.zip/u/Vicinus in policiesforall@piefed.zip

002

[Policy] Community Based Loans

22d 7h ago by piefed.zip/u/Vicinus in policiesforall@piefed.zip

023

[Policy] Professionals to Remote Locations

26d 4h ago by piefed.zip/u/Vicinus in policiesforall@piefed.zip

204

[Policy] Purchasing (Guaranteed for its Lifetime)

27d 8h ago by piefed.zip/u/Vicinus in policiesforall@piefed.zip

105