A note on political forums

discourse can be a great platform for a good political organization or talk about reformation in governments

I agree it would be, this is not a critique to discourse. Political organizations, as they are structured today in most democratic countries, are strongly conditioned away from being productive on those matters. I’m not saying they can’t be productive, I’m saying they won’t, not out of limitations but out of incentives.

people prefer talking about things rather then taking initiative

That’s rather an inconvenience, not a core problem, for it dampens one of the ways I could attract attention to the tool, but it’s not the core reason it’s not used. It’s just like in any company that uses discourse: you don’t need to “attract attention” to the forum for it to be a productive tool, you need to be productive so you just use the tool.

Many governments worldwide are becoming more socialist, I don’t see that as necessarily always a bad thing.

We can debate about it but not here, I agree with the admin that this is out of scope for meta.

Hope you can have better success with community organizing in the years ahead.

Thank you :slight_smile: . I’m not trying to organize a community anymore, I’m taking the “nostr approach” for that purpose: make the interaction protocol, let the network self-develop around it.

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