• OhYeah@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    A decentralized marketplace would honestly be pretty sick as long as they can figure out how to ensure people don’t’t get scammed

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      “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.

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        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.

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

      1. 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.
      2. A storage service where providers will offer storage of goods at specific locations, and consumers that make requests for the storage.
      3. 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.