• analog_fluffy@lemmy.zipOP
      116·
      3 days ago

      You know, it would be easier if you would just state your argument instead of being all cryptic and weird.

      So yr saying that the fact that a person can have multiple accounts renders democracy nonworking? And that’s why we don’t do democracy?

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        3 days ago

        Its much harder to fake votes in real life. On a forum where the members vote I can potentially be as many members as I want. So it doesnt hold up unless you are invading user privacy (bad) and even then its not a good solution as I can just use my mom’s ID to make another sock puppet.

        • onslaught545@lemmy.zip
          3·
          2 days ago

          I do have to say that Lemmy by design is pretty anti user privacy. Anyone with an instance can view your post history even if deleted, your vote history, and your IP address.

          • xavier666@lemmy.umucat.dayEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            Lemmy is designed for public discourse and data availability. If you want your thoughts to be private, don’t post here.

            If you want privacy, you should use Matrix groups. But even in Matrix, you’re at the mercy of the host admin.

        • analog_fluffy@lemmy.zipOP
          26·
          3 days ago

          How might one do democracy then? I mean, is there a way? Can this engineering riddle be solved?

        • analog_fluffy@lemmy.zipOP
          16·
          3 days ago

          So, yes. We don’t do democracy because we can’t do proper voting. Because we can’t ensure one vote per member.

          But if we could, would we?

          Consider reddit. They could ensure that. Right? But they don’t do democracy. So that’s interesting.

        • analog_fluffy@lemmy.zipOP
          18·
          3 days ago

          And yet you didn’t answer the question.

          You clearly don’t know what “straightforward” means.

          • SmokeInFog@midwest.socialEnglish
            12·
            3 days ago

            Jfc, I’m not the original person who started this thread.

            But if you’re a child who needs it broken down:

            1. forums such as lemmy allow users to create multiple accounts
            2. each account a person has access to is a potential vote
            3. casual honest users will then likely just have one vote
            4. whereas terminally online jerkoffs like you sound like will have a dozen or more accounts and votes
            5. therefore, it’s not a good system for enforcing any kind of egalitarianism.

            You might as well ask why we need login accounts at all. If you want to see what happens with such systems, you need only look at 4chan.

            Now, fuck off I’m done with this thread

            • analog_fluffy@lemmy.zipOP
              110·
              3 days ago

              Yes, we are already discussing the multiple accounts thing. And much more efficiently than you.