Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 months agoexcept you cant. not in most real life situations. I personally made it a habbit to not shop at amazon and the time and money I “waste” for shopping elsewhere is insane. If you come with “you’re just bad at searching then” I will block you without comment.
MyOpinion@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It is hard to shop at other places. I just always give other places a chance to win my business. It keeps some money from Amazon.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 months ago
Exactly. And that is by design. We need legislation for that but we also need a working system to compete if possible (imo). If I didnt have to use search engines all the time to get my products that would be awesome. I’d like to go to a site I trust because I worked with them in the past and buy stuff from them while actively widening my scope of trust without having to navigate potential scams. Example: amazon takes care of scams (or paypal for that matter) and so should a federating shop. thats why trust in federation is very important.
MyOpinion@lemm.ee 2 months ago
There are currently money saving plugins that will alert you Automatically to lower prices on other sites when I am shopping Amazon. They kind of suck, but maybe a Fedi version of that would be better.