Lemmy, federation and activity pub have taken my brain to some weird places in these last few months.
What if the world had a federated, activity pub based, passenger transport and delivery app?
Anyone with enough tech literacy to have their own WordPress blog could also start their own local (as in, for their neighbourhood) instance of uber/lyft/doordash, effectively for free. Moderating and establishing quality and trust between customers and providers on their own communities.
Customers could use fronted like jerboa to add as many local instances as they’d like. Or drivers could subscribe to multiple sources of passengers. Or, anyway, networks between restaurantes, delivery and customers.
Some form of opencollective project/format could be use to fund development teams working on it.
I know it’s a huge endeavour. Can you please challenge my initial thoughts? Is the logic sound? What am I missing? Do you know of anything like it?
Something like this is what I imagine as a “bening version of the web3”. I’m not an expert (by far) on any of this, but from my limited understanding, the biggest obstacle in practice is the payment method. If we are talking about online payments, that (AFAIK) makes the legal aspect much harder. Leaving the payment outside the platforms may work, but that would make some parts much harder (traceability, accountability).
Personally, I like much more your version of the future that this one
Source: dumb future: “@briankrebs They’re coming for…” - Hachyderm.io
Well, yeah. That is where payment modules would need to be developed by region.
Possibly some umbrella solution like “insert your own stripe api key”.
But also you shed some light over finance management between operator and providers, thank you! I think this should provide outstanding balances, and some functionality for marking/confirming payments, but banking itself probably has to be done independently.