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The Fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops (techcrunch.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What's next? Fediverse Amazon?

Just stop 😂

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 days ago (3 children)

A decentralized marketplace would honestly be pretty sick as long as they can figure out how to ensure people don't't get scammed

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

"Sick" as in "slick?" "Good?" (Going to add "clueless oldster" to the description on my BH profile page).

Along the lines of a "Fediverse Amazon", @[email protected] told me about flohmarkt, which does look interesting. One of its instances can be viewed here.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

One note on "sick" being slang for "good": that particular slang started in the 80s, and some of the younger generation consider it to be old person slang.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

So I'm even older than I thought?! 😱

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Sick mean cool or awesome. I guess

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

IMO we need to break it in a few independent but cooperating decentralized systems;

A transportation service where consumers will request the transportation of goods or people from point A to point B, and providers will make bids for those requests.
A storage service where providers will offer storage of goods at specific locations, and consumers that make requests for the storage.
A LC service, where two parties can enter an letter-of-credit (LC) contract, and providers can guarantee the contract.

If these systems are available, it would be possible to implement additional decentralized services like;

Marketplaces.
Passenger transportation services.
Food delivery.
Probably many more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

So… doomed?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why? Is it bad providing alternatives? Especially as it is Fediverse based, which is federated and not controlled by a single company. And being compatible to Fediverse protocol means you can use any application.

Imagine something like Amazon, a central place you go and everyone who federates with it can sell products. I'm not against it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Fediverse is underpopulated cringe, this place is dead compared to everywhere else I go