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Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! (lemmy.giftedmc.com)

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Hi folks! I'm here with another idea. Let's make an amazon alternative. I know! I know! That was asked for a couple times already but lets discuss some details.

Amazon is basically glorified dropshipping by now. What if we just made federated (not sure if over activitypub would work) ads and sales, powered by fediseer (the "trust" network of the fediverse).

Example 1: So you buy at toms groceries, you trust them. they have experience with tina's hardware store and they trust them. so you can buy both toms and tinas wares on both sites.

Example 2: So for example, I run a small business that sells computers. You run a small business that sells mice and keyboards. I have worked with you before so I mark you as trusted in my local website, which federates with yours, showing your products in my shop. If a customer buys my computer and buys your keyboard on top, my site sends you a buy order with customer address and payment. I get a small fee for my electricity of say 1%.

Can someone try and poke holes in this idea? It feels like this could work!

Have a nice weekend.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Amazon doesn’t handle shipping for a lot of the things they sell.

This is false. Very few products sold via Amazon are shipped independently from Amazon's logistics services.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you have numbers for this? I tried to find some, and couldn't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From Amazon:

In 2023, FBA had been the preferred choice of 82% of Amazon sellers to deliver their products.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, so 18% of the stuff is shipped by someone else. IDK if you want to call that "a lot", but I definitely wouldn't call it "very few." Anyway glad we got to the answer, however to characterize it.