democracy still gives one output. its just instead of one head talking, a collective decides, its still one entity. having more nations/"software implementation" is decentralization, because they can work decide and fail or succeed in parallel.

in democracy answer can either be "yes" or "no".

but if you have alternatives, "yes" and "no" can live in parallel at the same time.

imagine if we didn't have multiple different nostr relays or clients.

and instead had one relay and client and only voted for the changes.

imagine if we had multiple different bitcoin node implementations.