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