Its just not a democracy.

IMO the US is de-facto like the ancient Roman republic, where plebeians, could vote but only for patricians, so “everybody” (ofc slaves and womens rights were neglected back then) could vote but all questions that were ever discussed in the senate were interests of patricians, same goes for political “coverage” and campaign elections.

So there was dissent and processes that were democratic on the surface but they exclusively revolved around the interests of the patricians.

The US is like that where patrician interests are replaced with capital interests. You can only vote multi-millionaires into the white house and the only issues to ever change are the issues of a fraction within the capitalist class (meaning someone living off of someone elses labour rather than their own).

If you belong to those capitalists you enjoy democratic representation, if not you can only decide which capitalist position you find better and vote for that.

Not sure if should upvote you bc this flamewar needs to be picked up again or downvote you for your inferior choice of editor

#ChurchOfEmacs

Sure thing

What do you mean by “browse” feature?

There is a way to see a feed of all Lemmy activity.

In jerboa you can see it after you click on on the burger menu in the top right corner of the screen and select “All”.

Do you run the latest update?

It has a “communities” entry in the sidebar that let’s you search and subscribe communities.

I feel like the nays will be underrepresented bc of selection bias so I’ll be one.

So far I have not had the same engagement. But I am convinced that is bc I have yet to get used to the jerboa UI/UX. I am more active once I feel at home, was the same for reddit, is the same for lemmy.

Its great that you feel more impactful on lemmy! I think on reddit you either feel the way you have or are constantly being called a slur (say “tankie”) and removed/banned left and right.

So far lemmy seems way more authentic to me. Less capital interest, PR companies, bots, astroturf, think tank/gov-adjacent hacks. I like that.

Alos writing this made me realize my mode of commenting is still very much a reddit one