Those in favor reply “Aye”

Those against reply “Nay”

  • jarek91@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Nay. I feel this suggestion is based in the old centralized platform mentality. That isn’t to say it is wrong, but it seems based in a premise that does not apply to a federated platform. If you start thinking about how a federated platform actually works, I could join this community…and others on this instance…from an account on another server. Why would we treat someone as second class citizens for using the Fediverse in the way it was intended?

    For those thinking “they can just make an account here if they want to vote”, you are right. They could. But that also goes back to centralist mentality. We want to be able to interact with people and communities regardless of which instance houses the data object that is my account. From that perspective, I feel voting should be more inclusive than just those who have a user object stored on this instance.

    My question back to you would be, what problem are you trying to solve by this limitation? I’m sure there are any number of hurdles we will need to address with open voting, but we have to identify those problems first.

    • tcely@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I don’t want people who haven’t agreed to follow the same set of rules deciding what the rules are that I must follow.

      It’s like how much of the world decided it didn’t enjoy colonial rule so much.