Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!

• balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If it involves money, it has the incentive to game the system. So you’d be dealing with multiple efforts of actors adding fake reviews, sabotaging competitors, endless spam etc.

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  • someacnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Argh, that connects it to the shopping platform. I wish there is a way around amazon…

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• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reading the post, I found what I really want right now: a federated review platform.

  !neodb@lemmy.zip is a general review site. It currently covers media but, if you can get the data in (SKUs?) I can’t see a reason it couldn’t cover other products.

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  • someacnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks a lot! Bummer that it is primarily for media. I wish it had more publicity/popularity, is there any way I can help?

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    • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not a bunker per se, it is just that, if you are a review platform, the easiest initial targets would be Goodreads, IMDb, etc. Other types of stuff to review may take a little longer. However, if you can get access to a source of unique IDs, it may be possible to import the information. As it is written in Python there will be knowledgeable folks around who can better advise on this. I’d suggest post about it here: !neodb@lemmy.zip. See what other people think about it.

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