souperk @ souperk @reddthat.com

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You could basically give drivers 100% of the profits minus hosting costs/development costs (dev might fall away depending on the model).

I would assume that drivers are hosting their own instance, and they get to decide both (a) how much they charge and (b) what portion of their profits they donate to the devs (especially modifications they need).

Money, ratings, reputation, identity stuff are all better solved with blockchain than with federation in my opinion. You don’t want to have to check the repuation of each instance, every instance might handle ratings differently etc… It would be a mess. Rather you’d want to only be worried about driver reputation.

I think this is already happening with taxi services. Here in Athens, there are a dozen of services you can call to order a taxi, and people (at least younger generations) are aware of most of them and use them depending on their preferences.

Also, another layer of passenger protection could be the instance they use. Instance admins could filter the driver instances they federate with, allowing only drivers with specific criteria. An issue I see here is that the federation criteria would be much more strict, potentially marginalizing people or making the barrier of entrance more difficult.

Absolutely, I would consider instances that are run by cooperatives, probably with some segregation between drivers and passengers.

Other examples of instances could be:

• LGBTQ only passengers (or drivers) - I have friends that are afraid to take taxis because they don't trust cis-men taxi drivers.
• Female only passengers (or drivers) - pretty much the same issue
• Localized instances - Jurisdictions are hard to manage.
• Unions

lol I never stopped to think about it. Now that I have, I am terrified.

Some quick thoughts:

1. For Uber like services, I always assumed drivers and passengers are going to reside to separate instances that each tends to their needs. So, driver instances could negotiate with passenger instances and come up with fair pricing.
2. Each driver could enter their rate and have their instance automatically bid for them (assuming they are available) when a new ride is requested. The passenger (or their instance) gets to decide which driver to use.

Disclaimer: I am not trying to make any money out of this. I just hate big corps and like coding.

What you could do is an open source platform that integrates all car pooling services and gives you the best option.

Interesting take! So far, my carpooling MVP has been about bringing people in contact, assuming they can handle money transactions on their own. As you mention, jurisdictions are going to be a huge problem, which I wouldn't dream of handling on my own.

Here in Greece, the most popular media for carpooling is a Facebook group, where people can post either offers or requests for trips. So I tried to think of an MVP that could provide help those people while (a) not having to use Facebook and (b) have an improved user experience.

The wolf, realising the error of his ways, decided to change his diet and become a vegetarian, befriending all the pigs.

Aren't wolves like unable to process plant based foods? Like, they eat grass in order to vomit or something?

Human babies need a buff, they're functionally useless for far too long.

Capitalism now wants to extract value from babies??

Now I am kinda wondering if we could somehow fuzz it...

Spotted the software engineer

ADHD 2.0 on goodreads for anyone interested.

Also, I am wondering if Taking charge of ADHD (2nd edition) is any good. The first edition has mixed reviews on goodreads .

btw, I am scared of books, I haven't been able to complete a bunch of them without intense dedication. Any tips are appreciated.

Sounds to me like the equivalent of a product manager asking for blockchain features in order to save a failing startup.

it hurts to not think that way, sometimes a lot.

That almost made me cry.

I don't want to find a balance though, I want to find people who care.

Wondering if there is a P2P distributed storage solution we could be using?

I am trying to get started on a treatment at the moment. This made me anxious.

I had to reread the whole thing 5 times to make sure there water isn't one of the labels.

I am going back to work from a week of vacation, somehow I really needed to hear this.

Good luck to you too!

I think I am always right!

Using a VPN resolved the issue, I am going to send a complaint to my ISP just because fuck them.

Is ethical analytical a term? I will lookup Matomo, thanks awesome stranger!!

My fucking drunk self, highly agrees with you.

Well, there is drama, like in any human community, it's just that this community has half a million computer nerds.

It's a bunch of people that have been leading the technological revolution of the past decades, all experimenting with something called the Fediverse.

While everything is new and there are a lot of changes, some things are more common than others.

1. Privacy matters.
2. Freedom of speech matters.
3. The internet should be built by the people, and for the people, not big corps.

PS Not everyone here is a computer nerd, though that's something to take pride in IMO, but most of us kinda area.