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Federated marketplace protocol really should happen at some point.
Like, it seems like a very clear solution to an online monopoly risk. Maybe I'm wrong, though.
Main problem I see is payments
It also sounds like a cheater's paradise.
What do you mean by 'cheater'? Like 'scammer'?
Like people who would otherwise get banned from a platform for cheating in games. Tracking that down is so much more complicated/impossible with federation. In other words it makes ban evasion super easy. See also: email spam.