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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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry if my tone will be less gentle than needed.

Your comment brings no ounce of new ideas or criticisms to the table,

I don't think so.

overlooks all the pros and cons already mentioned

It makes sense that others look at different parts of the problem than you do.

I run businesses for 15 years, do ethical business since 10 yrs and am thinking from a position of experience.

Most people have (or recently enough had and will have) a job, and most people know a person or two with 10-15 years of experience in management positions who think they are thinking from a position of experience.

Different professions and job responsibilities exist for a reason.

The reason I dont present myself in a way that screams competence is because this is lemmy and we dont need this stuff.

You did it here instead of continuing a pretty normal thread or leaving it be.

I like spitballing ideas and push new projects for the benefit of the people.

That is important, but almost everyone has been spitballing ideas and pushing new projects since they learned to speak.

But feel free to suggest constructive things.

Quoting myself:

Getting back to logistics - one has to design a system of shared warehouses, transportation, mailing and delivery tasks, tracking, reporting on outcomes of every event, and all that should be even more abuse-resilient than the processes inside actual Amazon. You’ll have Byzantine problems in every interaction.

"Shared" is the important part. Even without that one can fail logistics - see USSR, the biggest corporation to fail in history.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Since this was another round of no additional input, I'll repeat myself too:

People have already suggested that. But thanks for participating.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Since this was another round of no additional input, I’ll repeat myself too:

I don't think so. I also can imagine you moved on to ethical business and suggesting ideas because you had personality conflicts where people actually do something.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 11 hours ago

I'm very happy you reveal your actual intent by personally attacking me instead of taking the hint. Good bye.