Is Direct Democracy Not Despotic?

In a democracy, if it's a direct democracy and the people yen, you get a tyranny of the majority. But in a despotic government, laws are made and arbitrarily executed by the same power. So e just becauseh people voting for the executive and people voting separately for the legislative doesn't mean that it's not a republican form of government. For cant what about just having the judicial separate? Because that was another thing that even if you had direct voting by all citizens on all the laws, and then representatives, you know, actually enforce laws,. By necessity, you can't have justEverybody, you can have a militia, everybody's a police officer. You can't have that