>>2806902>is an Email too much to send nowadays if you really care?yes. even more so because people don't really care. but even if you care, you won't spend your free time in that. real people often do care, but they have a fucking life. usually, you don't even know what matters, you don't understand the bureocracy and so on, what would you even put on that email?
i'll use open source as an example. the concept is that code is available and free to use, this allows anyone in theory to see the code and check what it does and how. but it's not enough that i can download it and read it, for example. the real reason open source works is that developers have a shitton of tools that make looking and understanding code extremely easy, you can go on any github repo and with few clicks check diffs, merge requests, issues, roadmaps, pull requests, who contributes and what, incredible amount of things all of them incredibly complex, but the UI is extremely good, the barrier of entry so low that it makes it so that a lot of people actually contribute to it.
the same should be for government. it should be easy to learn what the department of forestry has been doing lately in my county and how much it costs. and who knows what other details could be on that dataset, and what would some random autist dig up given the chance. but once the info accessible and easily consumable, lots of random people would end up looking at it and asking questions, and you could have a semblance of actual democracy and accountability. this frustates me a lot because i really think that actual democracy is possible with the tech we have, but nobody is interested in it
