Open source forum software to efficiently communicate the ideas and the will of large populations (countries, cities, companies, …) to the leading parties.
Our current democratic system feels outdated:
- Limited and slow feedback cycles of the population, as elections are only 1 time every 4 years.
- No easy communication channel from the population towards the leaders makes it difficult to bring new ideas. Current communication channels are labour and time-intensive such as protests, strikes or media attention.
- People have to vote for parties that rarely fully align with their interests.
- Black-and-white thinking and a lack of nuance of the larger population due to low-quality media coverage.
- People stay in local communities, which lack variety in perspectives and reduce the openness of their minds.
- Corruption. People are easily corrupted when the discussion occurs behind closed doors.
Create a Reddit-like forum where people can propose ideas
in threads and discuss them with a lot of people from different
backgrounds.
- Reddit-like threads with comments and up/down votes.
- Restricted login, so only people of a country can use it (e.g. Itsme for a lot of European countries like Belgium, Netherlands, ...). The login module should be easily adjustable so other organisations can host the forum with their login method.
- A voting option to vote yes/no on the idea of every thread.
- See the voting statistics per thread.
- Auto summarising, to summarise the topic concisely on top of the thread.
- Auto reasoning and bias detection, to label reasoning fallacies and improve the discussion.
Hivemind is not a replacement for the leading class, as it is not efficient to have everybody vote on every decision. See it more as a tool of a population to efficiently share it's will and ideas with the leading class. The leading class on the other hand can also use it to organise referendum.
- What will be the user base? and is it ok to use the forum as a guideline? e.g. what if only 10% of the population is actively using it.
- It is possible that this is a very bad idea, if so why?
- How to avoid echo chambers
- How to avoid fake news
- Fork existing repos that could serve as a starting point?:
- Forum magnum https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum
- ...
- cloud or not?
- Federated or not? Nice for public service, but maybe more difficult security-wise and with the restricted login?
- Hosting a forum is expensive and it would be nice to pay contributors somehow.
Join the discussion on r/hivemindforum subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/hivemindforum
For more technical discussions: https://github.com/Nurfen/Hivemind/discussions
Thanks for your input!