• DominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOP
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    Democracy means that power is held by the people. It doesn’t mean that if you don’t like it you can leave.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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      It’s called “voting with your feet”. Being free to leave is power. Means a hell of a lot more than up- and down-doots.

        • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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          You saw the whole paragraph where I talked about how lemmy is not a democracy, right? And literally cited this as one if the reasons why?

          Like I get that you’re probably responding to multiple subthreads right now, but it only takes a few seconds to scroll up.

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            And you also stated that it is inherently democratic.

            Would it kill you to stop being so coy and evasive?

            It’s a thousand dictatorships.

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          In a democracy, the community determines policy. Votes are orthogonal. If the community leaves when they disagree, by definition everyone that is remains agrees with the policy, making it a democratic policy. The friction to changing instance is very minimal, so it’s a good indicator of people’s opinions.

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              The first sentence was a response to you asserting voting is essential to democracy, which is false. The rest of the comment was a response to you not accepting Nemo@slrpnk.net’s argument.

              If you can’t find an instance you agree with, and you have a mass of people who agree with you but are collectively too lazy to create a new instance, you would communicate your stance with words. Lemmy has a system for leaving text statements. You seem to be familiar. But there’s no mechanism to force the instance operator to obey you.

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                But that wasn’t my question, was it?

                My question was whether you prefer a democracy or a dictatorship.

                The answer is clearly dictatorship.