Hi folks! I'm here with another idea. Let's make an amazon alternative. I know! I know! That was asked for a couple times already but lets discuss some details.

Amazon is basically glorified dropshipping by now. What if we just made federated (not sure if over activitypub would work) ads and sales, powered by fediseer (the "trust" network of the fediverse).

Example 1: So you buy at toms groceries, you trust them. they have experience with tina's hardware store and they trust them. so you can buy both toms and tinas wares on both sites.

Example 2: So for example, I run a small business that sells computers. You run a small business that sells mice and keyboards. I have worked with you before so I mark you as trusted in my local website, which federates with yours, showing your products in my shop. If a customer buys my computer and buys your keyboard on top, my site sends you a buy order with customer address and payment. I get a small fee for my electricity of say 1%.

Can someone try and poke holes in this idea? It feels like this could work!

Have a nice weekend.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm definitely intrigued. I have HUGE prejudices when it comes to blockchain, one being climate impact. The other being privacy of all things. But I can see it as an option.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not crypto, blockchain. When done correctly and you don't have every user trying to calculate the next hash for some pennies it works pretty well. Computing the hash when an action happens like a purchase is fairly trivial compared to mining.

Crypto started the concept of the blockchain, at the end though it's just a distributed immutable audit log. The hash is required, but if done correctly, it's trivial.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

in that case this would absolutely be a neat way of doing it. thanks for pointing that out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Climate impact of monero is significantly less per transaction than any fiat. Their are no physical banks with employees and buildings and travel and transport and minting etc etc etc. Monero is the only truly private currencies all others have every transaction tracked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll have to look into it at some point. The crypto bros could have also been hired by banks at this point to burn crypto as comoetition. I would not touch it with a 10 foot pole before extensive personally conducted research. which is unrealistic even for myself but especially for everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's quite a popular theory that the banks and even perhaps the us government itself played a part in promoting the crypto scams and nft bullshit simply to poison the idea of crypto for the masses.

Please do look into it if u got any questions dont be afraid to ask [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you for this friendly and encouraging offer. This goes a long way sowing trust. I feel a lot more positive about looking into it now. Have a nice weekend.