(first, thank you for achieving the straightforwardness that has escaped so many others here)
What is the difference between online society and irl society that makes dictatorship preferable in one and democracy preferable in the other?
Is it the size? The complexity?
If the dictator was you, might that make dictatorship more attractive?
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.
Yeah but they aren’t actually determining policy. Obviously.
Why are you bullshitting?
In a democracy the vote determines policy.
Democracy means that power is held by the people. It doesn’t mean that if you don’t like it you can leave.
Ten-thousand Lemmy and Reddit moderators say otherwise.
How about for lemmy?
Why do you dance around like this instead of just answering the question?
Actually somebody else got their shit removed and I wax philosophical on their behalf. I’m sophisticated that way.
Everybody says democracy but given the opportunity to be dictator they will choose dictatorship every time.
Is that a realistic assessment?
Every moderator on lemmy, apparently.
How about for lemmy communities?
Like, distinctive vibration patterns.
Hmm, surely it’s been done. It seems like straightforward good thing.
So you could say that both suffer from a vulnerability. Both break eventually.
Also, consider the attractiveness of dictatorship. I think that everybody would like to be a dictator. Who wants to share power? Not me. I want to be in control, of my forum, my project, my game.