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What is This Group is About?
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The unofficial non-partisan Lemmy movement to bring proportional representation to all levels of government in Canada.
🗳️Voters deserve more choice and accountability from all politicians.
Le mouvement non officiel et non partisan de Lemmy visant à introduire la représentation proportionnelle à tous les niveaux de gouvernement au Canada.
🗳️Les électeurs méritent davantage de choix et de responsabilité de la part de tous les politiciens.
- A Simple Guide to Electoral Systems
- What is First-Past-The-Post (FPTP)?
- What is Proportional Representation (PR)?
- What is a Citizens’ Assembly?
- Why referendums Aren't Necessary
- The 219 Corrupt MPs Who Voted Against Advancing Electoral Reform
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- List of Canadian friends of Democracy Bluesky
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- Electoral Renewal Canada: Bluesky
- Vote16: Bluesky
- Longest Ballot Committee: Bluesky
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- Ranked Ballot Initiative of Toronto (IRV for municipal elections)
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Nous recherchons davantage de modérateurs, notamment ceux qui sont d'identité française et autochtone.
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Seconded.
The both of you are talking about separate topics.
Ahal is talking about the "anti-conservative" posts, while you are talking about the general Canadian politics.
The purpose of this thread is to discuss exactly that, what kinds of content we should be ok with having in this forum. Please make the case for it, as it's not been brought up explicitly by anybody except yourself.
They kind of go hand in hand though. Given Lemmy's demographics, the "general Canadian politics" posts which get the most traction are going to be anti-conservative ones.
My main concern with general politics posts is that they will dilute the core message of PR. Too much "clutter" in people's feeds might also cause the people who are most interested in PR to unsubscribe.
Not really. You can have one without the other.
We also need general politics posts to grow the movement to new people who have never heard of proportional representation before. I've generally tried to keep topics to democracy, or from PR supporting parties, or PR itself. It's not like there are no rules.
This isn't what I've found to be the case based on the community statistics I've been tracking every day. The data suggests more activity consisent with what I've mentioned earlier (topics to democracy, or from PR supporting parties, or PR itself).
I'm sorry that you believe this is not what the PR community needs, but if you can come up with more PR content, by all means post them to the community. I'm just a volunteer, so you really shouldn't be expecting anything from me for a free service.
That's an interesting idea, though I don't think it is the only way to achieve that goal. I think mentioning PR in and crossposting to general Canadian politics communities could work too.
I'm not sure that raw engagement is necessarily the best metric to track. Outrage is great for engagement, but often does not lead to constructive action. For example, I've increases in "haha, PP bad" comments, which, while they might be true, exacerbate political division and do directly advance awareness of PR.
Is your strategy to use engagement-optimized posts as a sort of advertisement for the community? That would be an interesting idea, though I am unsure of its effectiveness.
Of course. I hope I didn't come across as ungrateful. I'd love to see this community succeed at its goals of getting PR implemented across Canada. Thank you for all the work that you do. :)