The topic came up in this discussion of what feature would you like lemmy to have. I talked with nutomic (one of the developers) a bit about this and he suggested opening a separate topic so we could discuss if and how to implement it best.
The topic came up in this discussion of what feature would you like lemmy to have. I talked with nutomic (one of the developers) a bit about this and he suggested opening a separate topic so we could discuss if and how to implement it best.
Democracy is overvalued :)
I think democracy is underrated, wikipedia is one of the most visited sites in the word and is a democracy. science is one of the most highly regarded journals in the world and is managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (also a democracy), it’s surprising how these organisations manage to compete with for profit or even just non democratic nonprofit (that they are not doing something terribly dumb that makes them fail).
Sure, just inject democracy into anything and you get success :) Iraq without “democracy” and with it is definitely different place.
It’s obviously not a silver bullet, but it can help make lemmy more competitive with high quality content creators.
If you want to make a comparison to countries according to the democracy index iraq is not really a democracy, i think if you will compare countries democracy score with some measurement of well being (e.g. life satisfaction scores) you will find there is a good correlation. not a perfect one because other things are also effecting well being (e.g. quality of education , culture ).
It’s fair to both be critical of how “democracy” has been wielded as a weapon in the past and trying to make an evaluation of whether a country is democratic. In other words, you’re both onto something.
The discourse of democracy can be used as a rhetorical weapon. It was used as such in Iraq. But it is different to have democracy as a discourse and democracy as a social practice. What is the alternative to democratic social practice? Hierarchies. And it so happens that we can measure both types of social practices and their gradients in between. This is what @wiki_me@lemmy.ml did by finding the correlations. In other words, democracy as discourse is much more condemn-able than the incredibly powerful democracy as a social practice.