I think it's efficient to draw the line between the Jewish people and Israel, the zionist entity or whatever you want to call it.
I've written a few versions of "don't mistake the Jewish people from the fascist Israeli state". Didn't get many responses on it, which means people went to look for trouble somewhere else, in my book.
But there isn't really "educate" on the online land. It's most about occupying and disputing the space, as our sanity allows.
Welcome to the Internet. Signal the joke clearly so that you are not confused with stupid extremists. Joke's still there, and it's clear and unambiguous.
Poe's law is an adage of internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.[1][2][3] The law is frequently exploited by individuals who share genuine extremist views and, when faced with overwhelming criticism, deflect by insisting they were merely being satirical.
For not depending on altruistic action, I like the opencollective model. Both for self financing but as a platform too. If you use their platform to provide paid services, you share revenue for development. And then development/processing is charged from the collective fund through open recipes.
I expect most drivers to already be legal drivers. And the main point is to empower organisations that are already in place. Legally, I suppose the difference is that this is actually a technology project, with technology goals? The legal responsibility would be of actual operators.
Drivers drive as a job. Fees defined by the operator. Processing through payment modules. I was thinking each would need their own stripe API keys, for example. Split is also defined by the platform.
Trust would be built through moderation and finance. Operators can make some screening of customers and drivers, to increase trust between both groups.
I expect operators to provide support for any problems, since they choose the drivers explicitly. Including refunds. They got full control over finance.
If anything worse happens, I'd expect the operators to be in the hook. This is their service, actually. They have finance, they have actual full control.
If someone makes online stores with WordPress and doesn't delivery their goods, or deliver harmful goods, I don't imagine WordPress can be held accountable.
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.
I think federation makes it easier for customers to circulate between regions and find providers for regions that their original platform doesn't cover, using the same client. Or by adding multiple backends to the same client. They could trigger a single request for service in multiple providers, increasing the likelihood that someone will pick it up.
The fees would be defined by the operators. If an operator starts to gouge drivers/customers, it should be easy to kick them away and start a new one since the tech barrier and app barrier are removed.
I think the people working with the fleet, and service providers are the main stakeholder and the app has to be built for them. Customers are almost a second class citizen, in this model. For mastodon/lemmy, it is built for the end user first, which makes moderation tool lag behind too much.
Funnily enough, both ISIS and the Zionist State are terrorist organizations funded by the United States.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq