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  • nephs@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlDMCAtendo
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    2 months ago

    More people would be able to innovate on said “non IP”. Multiple lines could be developed by multiple independent teams, extending the non ip however they see fit. By encouraging competition, the better content would thrive.

    It lowers the barrier of entry, enforcing competition and lowering distribution cost. And without the ludicrous profit margins and legal overhead from big conglomerates, it would be cheaper for the consumers, and more of the fees could be distributed to the actual people working on the creation.

    This is prettyranty, sorry if it’s not too clearly articulated.



















  • 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.