Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!
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This is surprisingly one of the few actual useful uses of blockchain. Business tried to shove it in everywhere and it didn't make sense because blockchain is a way to audit federated separate instances - which businesses are not. They're a single monolithic structure, and they don't need the trust - they already have it. They're themselves, they just have to trust their own internal teams.
We, on the otherhand, are the perfect use for it. A way to say X person paid Y person for this product on this day at this time, X person now has the authority to rate Y person for how they did. Immutable, impossible to fake.
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Wow. Took a while to get a naysayer in here.
Sorry mate, I can do whatever I like. You should visit a hackspace at some point. You would be shocked how many people there give a crap about what you think they can do.
But on a more productive note:
I have not thought out the whole process yet. Otherwise I would not ask here but show a product. There are ways to work payments for open source already. Payments are limited to credit cards, bank transfer, crypto, paypal, stripe, etc as far as I know. So I would suggest the "main shop", that the customer orders in, would be the one booking and sending the other funds to the other shops the customer ordered in. The delivery would be standard dropshipping (the buy order goes to the other shop and they are responsible for delivery, same as amazon does for many shops now). Contestations is a good point. They would also need to be delivered to the dropshipped company and the payment contested as well. From my current pov this sounds entirely doable.
So if you just drop that condescending tone you can see we actually can be productive here. Do you have any more points we can work through?
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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.
