Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!
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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.
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Let's call it Frontpage
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as long as it's between instances and not exposed to end-users, yeah i think that was the original use case.
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I like your enthusiasm. Not too sure if I would go so far but I can see how one would think about it this way. No disagreeing from my side. I'll keep monero and other things like gnu taler in mind for a payment system. Thanks for participating.
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That is a very good point! Thank you! I figured someone would find a constructive way to argue why something might be better than something else and you are that person. This would kind of speak to the idea of crypto which I dont really like on first sight but it would at least give the ability to audit, right?
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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.
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Monero does a couple things that no other currency can do.
- It cannot be manipulated like fiat as its decentralised
- It cannot be frozen owning means u own it
- Ur payments are anonymous so ur purchases are not being mined by privacy invasive data brokers and insurance agencies
- Transaction fees are a fraction of a all existing currency cos free market
No other crypto or fiat can do this. It is objectively the best currency by all metrics. I challenge you to find one metric by which it is not objectively better (except its not widely used by normies).
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I'm in pretty strong agreement with you. Then again, i run a business and am a reseller for a couple companies. It isn't exactly rocket science. Company A has product, I note their price, make my own price, send offer to company B. They accept or decline. if the customer has any problems with the product, they either come to me or to the manufacturer. Imho its not much different than a unified storefron would be. Also you can put the sellers name in the storefront like ebay, amazon, ali express etc. the customer knows that its not you who actually sells the product. I think we're making this a lot more complicated than it needs to be.
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ITT: OP has an "idea" and no money. Please do all the work.
We are not your thinktank bro
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Crypto doesn't really solve any of the problems that a payment processor wouldn't also solve, unfortunately.
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wow. you're a real piece of work, aren't ya? byee
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Wow look at u go. Following me around the fediverse spouting off with ur hate. U support ur right to do with ur own body whatever the fuck u want. Please explain how that is in any way bigoted?
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yeah, thats right as well. and at least to my knowledge it would not be better to the environment either. one thing at a time. federated payment is for next week.
I would probably just use stripe and charge the customer and spread the money to the company in question. this is what you do as a normal business as well btw. You probably need to make your terms and the shop so that customer and the law knows that you are just a storefront for others as well as your own product. but aside from that I dont see a huge issue there.
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in that case this would absolutely be a neat way of doing it. thanks for pointing that out.
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So I'm not wrong then, got it. Thanks for confirming it.
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It is hard to shop at other places. I just always give other places a chance to win my business. It keeps some money from Amazon.
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Don't see why I need this to buy groceries. Shilling bags as I said originally.
I don't believe in [1], crypto market are heavily manipulated.
[2] and [3] are not desirable in my view. Don't forget, not everyone lives in the US and many people have experience and perspectives that likely you haven't though of.
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Yeah. I think a lot of the people in these comments are people just not experienced with business who assume that it is scary and impossible. There are certain aspects that are hairy if you don't know what you're getting into, but the whole system is designed to make it pretty easy. On the whole pie chart of "pain in the ass aspects," there are some pretty big slices in places, but "I have to set up a Stripe account oh no" is not one of them lol. That one is a tiny tiny sliver.
Even if you decide to collect payments yourself and do payouts to merchants yourself, like a little Etsy or Amazon, dealing with the headaches involved with sending and receiving the cash will still be a minority of your problems. Although they will jump up to being significant.
I kind of want to express interest for getting involved with this thing with you, since I do think it's a really good idea, but IDK if I really want to take it on. I do think it's a really good idea, though. Basically add the "operated by actual humans" aspect to online e-commerce as it is being added for online social media.
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Why do you hate fun
