Seeing as the politics community only allows links to articles, which I think is stupid horseshit. Let’s talk openly about changes we want to see here. I think the whole “this isn’t the place for politics” is a part of the reason we’re in this shit situation. We’ve let the greedy narcissists take over all discussion while we have no where to reasonably talk about policy.
I’ll start with a couple:
End presidential pardon
Raise federal minimum wage to $15
Federal cannabis legalization (buy/sell/grow)
End daylight savings
I want to see more democracy at a more fundamental level. I reject the notion that more direct democracy is impracticable or that workplace democracy is infeasible.
If I’m a voter in a community I should be able to just vote directly, and constantly on whatever the local council would be doing. New bypass or shopping center? New issue? Comments being given? All of this could be done in a simple secure app. And if I’m disinterested, I could assign my vote to follow someone I know or trust to reflect their vote, or just not vote at all.
I’ve considered the idea of a new political party based on this. The party members run on the premise that once elected, they’ll simply do whatever you tell them to via the app. Obviously there would need to be security and verification via the app, but this isn’t an intractable problem. Its not like we don’t have banking or other secure apps.
That’s actually interesting. Reps would be responsible for
That’s an interesting idea. I’ve been working on a STAR voting app and I could actually expand it into that. What core features would be necessary first? Probably user auth system, and code generation for votes? Could be like a platform that forms its own constitution?
Yeah I think I’ve played with your star voting app. I was actually digging into it for this exact use case.
I think an interesting experiment would be a lemmy community that does exactly this. Its something mods have cited as an issue (that its not possible to do).
I’m thinking about how to structure the features. I think the fundamental could be the STAR voting system given that I think it’s the most expressive. But the biggest issue would be vote manipulation, such that we’d need a few trusted individuals to act as arbiters, so that votes could be held in such a way that each individual receives one cryptographic key which allows them to cast one ballot.
I’m imagining an admin bot that can be added to a lemmy channel. Something that manages the instance. You set up rules on who can or cant vote/ how votes should come into existence. Then the bot is in the channel, listening and goes through the operations.
The lemvotes API gives us what we would need to manage most of things. Beyond that, as a social experiment, I think we just put it into the hands of the community and see what happens.