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.

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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).

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most crypto markets yes they are manipulated because their value is purely speculative and not tied to physical goods. Xmr is used extensively across the dark web tiring it to real world goods stabilising its value.

U think the government or a bank should have the right to just freeze ur money whenever they want or feel like it? U want ur entire purchase history being sold to databrokers who will use it to profile you so they can sell u crap and up ur insurance rates to the maximum point possible.

If u looked at my profile u would have noticed an Aussie flag so ur american argument doesn't work.

U still haven't found a metric by which xmr is worse.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I could see XMR being less manipulated on a relative basis, but all of crypto is far far more manipulated than any fiat (even of small country of say 3 million people). Because real currency reflect real economic activity that spans a broad range of use cases.

Yeah, I don't believe in edgelord type stuff. You do want the government to be able to freeze the money of criminals and malicious oligarchs.

You don't need Monero (or crypto) to solve the databroker issue. It's a matter of expectations,vstandards and law enforcement. And you know that Monero won't solve the data collection issue. The products you purchase aren't on a blockchain platform and they interact with the real world, therefore you can make a dataset for tracking of them.

Don't look at people's profiles.