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Final vote: NO
Should probably use something that only allows 1 vote per IP address. I think strawpoll.com and livepoll.io can do that.
VPN voting is also not allowed with this poll. I personally use a VPN and will have to turn mine off to vote on this.
Democracy takes work.
Using an off-site tool for voting trades our current problems for others. We would have no way to limit voting to only users of this instance, allowing anyone to brigade our votes.
Basically, the same problem as a single user making 100s of accounts to manipulate a vote.
I think instead we need to limit voting to user accounts of a certain age, and with X number of comments. We can all help with this by reporting accounts that are too young, or appear to have bot generated comments.
Until new tools are developed and built into Lemmy for voting, we'll all have to chip in. Because...
Democracy takes work.
"America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship; you've gotta want it bad, cuz it's gonna put up a fight." --President Andrew Shepherd, The American President
Seems to me the moment TheDude announced there'd be member votes on instance policy and direction was the moment a certain subset of folks lost their minds. "We shouldn't vote at all." "Voting in a federation is pointless." "We should restrict the vote." "What if tHeY vote?!?!"
This is fairly easy to game too though. Lots of people maintain a dozen alts. I think human verification with a service requirement should be the way to earn a vote.
Service guarantees citizenship