In its initial stages, DirectDemocracyS was known to a very few, carefully selected people, and we defined it as partially public. We are not a secret sect, and we have no secrets, but we respect everyone's privacy, both internally and externally, and we do not disclose the results of our work unless they are final and strictly necessary, based on individual and group decisions.
Spreading our activities to non-official members is completely pointless, and we don't like wasting precious time. If someone is truly interested, they join us, pay an annual fee, and work actively with us to make our vast and complex system work. After doing so, they'll receive much more information.
While we wait to have all our own micro-groups, in urban areas, and in rural areas, at the local level, with up to 1000 inhabitants, the only place where we carry out all our activities is represented by our platforms.
We call it our collective property, sometimes even the great common home of anyone who joins us. We've explained the reasons for our decision to hold off on outside activities until the right time. Here's a short list of some of them. Security measures that ensure the protection of every person, every group, and every activity we do. Log files that clearly show all our official members who has performed each activity, so we can punish those who make mistakes and reward the best users. To ensure that we will forever be free, independent, and neutral, thanks in part to self-financing. To have a clean, tidy, and optimally organized space, with all the necessary resources. To depend on no one but ourselves. To be indebted to no one but ourselves.
So if we ask for a small contribution, we don't do it to enrich a few, but to ensure the survival of our system, while taking into account the economic and financial conditions of those most in need. We offer annual installments with terms of up to four years for those on low incomes.
If we ask for direct commitment from the higher levels of users, it's because the world doesn't change and improve on its own, and no one should wait for others to do so; it requires a lot of long, hard work from everyone. It's not enough to simply change and improve the world; it requires ongoing commitment from everyone, not only to preserve all the good results achieved, but to continuously improve, continually evolving, and innovating as needed.
The preceding sentences explain many of our motivations, as well as some important details. First, DirectDemocracyS, in its important and delicate initial stages, wasn't suitable for everyone, and we couldn't accept just anyone to build a solid foundation on which to create such a comprehensive system with enormous potential. Second, not everyone understands, and above all, not everyone has the patience, time, and will to get personally involved. This widespread superficiality and chronic laziness slows our growth, but also preserves the integrity of our system, which grows slowly but steadily, and with the most suitable people to work with us at every stage. Simply put, only completely compatible people participate in the various stages, and this strengthens us and saves us precious time. At the right time, however, anyone who wants to join us can do so, because having the best people in the right places, even the least compatible, already within us, will not create any problems.
DirectDemocracyS has everything it needs to do great work, and if we need something, we create it, striving to use only the best technologies, constantly updated and improved. We have the best operating systems and all the most suitable components to perform every task.
We have economic and financial management groups, open to all our official members, who follow shared rules, methodologies, and instructions. We don't waste money and resources on trivial matters. We don't need huge offices and facilities to carry out our various activities. Be careful. Thanks to our local micro-groups, when the time is right, we will also have a physical presence in every geographical, territorial, administrative, and electoral area. So we won't just work online, but will gather in public spaces, as well as in the homes of anyone who invites us to get to know each other and work together. At a certain point, we won't be dependent on any technology, because we will have many of our own official representatives, everywhere in the world.
We repeat, without huge offices and without unnecessary expenses, DirectDemocracyS will be found at the home of each of our official members, who, as collective owners of our entire system, can request to officially represent our system, both internally and externally.
We are not without offices, but as we do with our truly and completely shared leadership, we have many offices, which create one enormous one. If we combine even less than one square meter in the homes of all our official members, we will have the largest, most functional, and best office, with a comprehensive presence in every corner of the globe. Without spending anything, and without requiring virtually nothing, for all our official members. By avoiding waste, we can invest only in the things that are truly important.
Transportation is also shared, and we generally prefer to hold virtual conferences and meetings, using our own technology, and hold in-person meetings only at the local level. We also do this to avoid polluting the planet, with large meetings at the national, continental, and international levels, which, if held in person, would cost money and could have a negative impact on the environment.
If necessary, we will organize our own public demonstrations, following detailed rules, methodologies, and instructions. We will not participate in demonstrations with other political parties, unions, or other organizations, but will conduct our own separately and with an internal code of conduct that will be respected by all participants. We will do so without any violence or destruction, and we will always request and obtain all necessary permits. All our participants will be identified and monitored continuously , always with their faces uncovered. Each individual participant will assume full responsibility for their own behavior, and will be responsible for any damage caused to people or property. All instructions from security forces will be respected, based on mutual respect.
All our physical activities are broadcast live and completely recorded, so we can document and verify everything we do. We do this for various reasons, all based on logic, common sense, transparency, truth, research, and mutual respect.
Technology is still necessary and fundamental, to hold everything together, but also to document, demonstrate, and verify every physical activity, in every part of the world.
But let's see what this technology consists of, and how our platforms are distributed.
We have only one main, fully exposed, publicly visible web server. It's the subdomain https://free.directdemocracys.org/ , which is the gateway to our platforms and the only website that allows anyone to join us.
We have five backup web servers, which ensure our presence on every continent, ready to be activated if needed and to back up all the data from the main web server. One of the backup web servers is used by lower-level users, with the subdomain https://access.directdemocracys.org/ . Another web server hosts the subdomain https://www.directdemocracys.org/ , where higher-level users work. Another web server hosts the subdomain of our creators, developers, and guarantors. We use two of these web servers not only for backup but also as emergency web servers, ready for use in case of emergency.
Each of our subdomains contains all the specific websites, created, managed, and verified according to our needs.
Our obsession with working only on our own platforms, though valid, isn't understood by many people, who consider us too demanding and too "hidden." We don't want to define this type of person in the most appropriate way; we simply call them frustrated and superficial. They often ask us: "Why should I register and create a personal profile on yet another platform when I'm already registered on various social networks and countless other websites?" Others complain, asking: "Why don't you let me join you using my personal profile on the main traditional social networks? It would be easier, faster, and always safer." Let's answer the second question right away with another question that will clarify some of the reasons. If you write something "wrong," or if you're reported by multiple users at once (rightly or wrongly), and they block you or delete your personal profile on a traditional social network, how will you access your personal profile on DirectDemocracyS? Basically, joining us by registering and creating a personal profile, thus obtaining an identity in our system, requires very few things. For example, for a completely free personal profile, with no obligation to be present or to engage in any activities with us, the requirements are very few and simple. A username chosen according to our rules (nickname or random code), maintaining anonymity. A password of at least 12 characters (containing non-consecutive numbers, uppercase and lowercase letters that do not form words, and special characters, and that is difficult to guess). To do this, you need a personal, non-temporary, individually accessible email address, protected by a secure password, where you will receive the self-activation link, and a personal phone number, which will be verified before activation. Of course, for non-free user types, you will have to pay annual fees (a nominal fee, but crucial to our self-financing), and for the most important user types, you will have to carry out concrete activities with us (to keep our enormous mechanism running), with an attendance of about 20 minutes a day, every day (because the world doesn't change or improve on its own; it requires everyone's ongoing commitment). For the higher-level user types, who are part of our shared leadership and have voting rights in our system, and for our official members, who collectively own our entire system, we verify the identities of each individual user, with increasing and gradual security measures. For all higher-level user types, an official invitation is also required, with the inviter assuming full responsibility for who is invited. To gain more significant user types, you need a certain number of points, earned based on your specific individual and group activities, and specific periods of time, with impeccable behavior. And to answer the initial question: if we had worked in someone else's home, we would always be submissive, and at risk of blocks or deletions of many of our activities, many of our groups, and many of our users. Therefore, we prefer to be protagonists, and masters of our own destiny, on our own properties. It costs a little more, and we might lose some potential users/voters, but we can assure you that it's the only way to prevent any potential problems. The fact that we are not a sect is demonstrated by the fact that at the right time, at the right stages, literally anyone can join us, and if and when they meet all the requirements, they can become an official member, and therefore collective owner, of our entire system.
