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Switzerland has Fedlex. For example here's the constitution.

More likely thinking of Switzerland, since we're neighbors and speak the same language (kind of). So it's easier to conflate us.

Why even use WORDS for it? That's too long.

Let's use ternary numbers, one for each of North-South and East-West. A 1 is center, 2 is north/east, and 0 is south/west.

So North is now 21. South east is 02.

Much easier to say like that, and it covers all 8 directions too and the center (11) too.

most users find the most popular platforms and don't have a reason to move on

This is definitely a good point. Is even visible here, with not just Mbin but also Piefed still barely having users compared to Lemmy.

federation and instances is a confusing prospect

Which is why we shouldn't frontload people with that stuff. They don't need to understand decentralization from the start, let them familiarize themselves with the fediverse first before throwing that at them. Just recommend a default instance, maybe change which every few posts if centralization is a concern. They'll pick up the idea of instances as they interact with the fediverse.

"Now, the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, which is both beautifully and aptly named after a president who ended eight wars in less than a year, will stand as a powerful reminder of what strong leadership can accomplish for global stability," she said.

? What 8 wars does he think the ended? Are there even 8 he got involved in at all?

"You can't trust the Chinese people themselves, because a right wing western propaganda outlet says something different!"

Again, I'm not saying that. There's a difference between relying on the feelings of random poll responders and determining something based on specific criterias challenging facts. Present a pro-China source doing the latter and you've got an argument.

Yeah, nothing biased about this sentence,

The bias is the point. My entire point there is that people with different perspectives have different opinions. My perspective shapes my bias, which shapes my opinion. Same applies to everyone else. My perspective is a bit extreme, so similarly my opinion is a bit extreme too.

Like how you think you live in a country "that ensures the people are effectively the highest power in the country."

Well, that is the case. Switzerland lets its people freely launch binding votes to modify the constitution (to which the government is held) and veto laws via referendums. This makes the people effectively the highest power, as they can control what the government can do and also have the last say on any law they try to pass.

Bahaha. Yeah, sure mate. Unlike those irrational orientals, those perfect icons of rationality at the Economist are able to create a metric for measuring "Democracy" that it pure fact, no feelings or perceptions involved. And what do you know, it just happens to give the exact result that aligns with ideology they already held! Yes, the Chinese people may think they know what they think, but they're too underdeveloped to know their own thoughts, we need enlightened western pundits for that.

I really don't think you're getting my argument correctly. And no, I don't think you know even if you claim you do.

You keep trying to make this about chinese vs western when that's not my point at all.

Look, I don't agree with the democracy index fully either. Its set of criterias isn't entirely ideal imo.

But I intended to bring it up as a separate source from OP's claiming something else than them, not as a source of truth.

Perception doesn't mean anything! Except for the perception of western neo-liberals who hate China.

You clearly don't understand my problem with the original source presented. It's not about who was asked. The issue is that it's entirely from asking people how they feel about their democracy. This depends on what they associate with democracy, what they believe democracy needs, and how happy they are with their representation. My primary issue with it is that you can't compare countries when the criteria differ from country to country.

Like, this isn't just a China thing. For example, my country has a mechanism that ensures the people are effectively the highest power in the country. Even to the point of being able to veto any law we don't like. As a result, I actually struggle to reconcile other countries that essentially just seem to have open elective monarchies with distributed power structures as actual democracies. There's no real rule of the people there to me. But most of the western world would disagree with me there, because they see democracy in a way less absolutist light. There's also the matter of the US, whose democracy has always been questionable considering they only have two right wing parties and nothing else, but USians see (or saw before Trump) themselves as a role model of democracy.

The reason I brought up propaganda is because it absolutely influences perceptions. A lot of the reason why perception of democracy tanks is because you don't feel represented. That's a lot easier to fix if you get everyone to think the same as the party in charge. Hence the value of propaganda.

Anyway, I understand you not trusting the democracy index, but unlike the source given by OP it's based on observations of facts, not feelings. Of course, the observers or facts could be biased, that is a valid concern. But then the counter is a Chinese facts-based source, not an opinion survey.

Liability waivers don't apply outside the US.

Perception doesn't mean anything. It depends on what the population defines as democracy, which can differ between countries due to what they're used to and their propaganda. China does rank horribly in the democracy index.

Can you do that with Lemmy/Piefed posts?

Now to figure out the final step, how to crosslink posts.

What do you mean with "crosslinking" in this context?

You know how to view a threadiverse post from Mastodon. You know how to post a Mastodon post to a threadiverse community.

What else are you looking for?