Half-assed idea: has anyone explored a federated food delivery service?Delivery persons and restaurants would host their own instance, and users would discover and order through a client app or browser. Like mastodon, it would cut out the centralized ...
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@[email protected] the big question you'd need to solve is how you'd handle a federated payment solution.
There have now been two FediForums where discussions on monetization have been carried out but no viable opportunities rise up from the bikeshedding.
Lots of concerns!
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I see it more of an issue with search engines. Not sure it is a good project, as most of the ideas I come up with are exploitable like Google search is.
But it is something I would like - maybe more like a delivery agent cooperative, which is responsible for its own payment processing (stripe and other modules as dropins?) and agreements with food producers?
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@Michael see, what we'd like to see is one that's a worker-owned co-op.
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@irenes perhaps this could facilitate that?
I feel like it could give both the owners and the delivery persons a better stake and the ability to set their rates.
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@Michael yeah - well, it's not that they're unrelated things, but they come from different theories of change. build a technology vs. organize a group of people. they could certainly go together.
