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Depends on the dictator, depends on the democracy. Ideally neither, but democracies are usually less awful than dictatorships.
How about for lemmy?
Lemmy is inherently democratic. If you don't like a muni, or an instance, you go to another one. Without centralization dictatorship is impossible.
That said, it's not democracy, either: It's a federation of interdependent polities, each with their own laws and administrators. Which is good, because it allows for rapid response to spam, inappropriate content, and verbal violence.
And if the admins or moderators overreach, well, back to the first paragraph: we've got open borders, go homestead your own community on another instance. You literally cannot be silenced here.
Closer to anarchy, seemingly.
Inappropriate to compare with governmental organizations. Differing goals.
Democracy means that power is held by the people. It doesn't mean that if you don't like it you can leave.
It's called "voting with your feet". Being free to leave is power. Means a hell of a lot more than up- and down-doots.
In a democracy the vote determines policy.
But this is obvious. Right?
You saw the whole paragraph where I talked about how lemmy is not a democracy, right? And literally cited this as one if the reasons why?
Like I get that you're probably responding to multiple subthreads right now, but it only takes a few seconds to scroll up.
And you also stated that it is inherently democratic.
Would it kill you to stop being so coy and evasive?
It's a thousand dictatorships.