Comment on Uber slashes fees in Bangladesh as drivers keep taking rides offline

themurphy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• shasta@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doesn’t sound profitable to me

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah yes, because everything in life is about profit for yourself, instead of changing other people’s lives by enabling them to work.

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    • DudeDudenson@lemmings.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ok why don’t you fund it yourself then

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      • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Because I am funding another FOSS project that is saving lives

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  • vasametropolis@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Profitable for who? The one hosting it foots the bill. If it was federated, all drivers could host their own instance like WordPress and a single app would connect to all instances and all drivers.

    Agencies could start up to manage the tech for a negotiable fee if the drivers in the area didn’t want to bother with the tech.

    Whether or not it could be profitable entirely depends on the hosting and delivery model. One guy could host the tech stack and charge maintenance fees and be in the green.

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    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can’t trust tiny random “self-hosted” Uber services. They could use any random drivers with criminal records, or even without drivers licenses. They could have terrible cars and charge extra fees. You would never be able to trust the driver ratings. They could tell you the car will arrive in 5 minutes for 30 minutes.

      These are all the problems people had with small taxi companies. Why would you replicate that in an app?

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      • vasametropolis@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can’t

        You wouldn’t - the software would have to hook into a background check service. This can absolutely be done.

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• lloram239@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Problem here is that “Open source platform” is a meaningless term. Open Source is a type of license that regulates how to redistribute source code. None of those principles apply to services and platforms, which are about data and control. If the Uber app would be Open Source, but still had to connect to the Uber server and play by its rules, nothing would change. Meanwhile if it played by its own rules, what rules would that be? There are no established rules for an “open” service platform, especially not when it comes to platform that have review and reputation systems build in.

  Simply put, it’s really not clear how you can be “open” yet at the same time provide any level of protection against fraud and abuse.

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  • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dreaming is free, so here’s my list:

    • FOSS
    • Federated
    • E2EE
    • Accepts Cash & Crypto Payments
    • Easily self hosted

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How would you ensure safety of drivers and passengers with open source platforms?

  Wouldn’t you need some sort of centralized authority to take on that risk and enforce rules to be followed and ban certain people from the platform?

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  • eskimofry@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bitch please. As if uber gives 2 shits about secruity. They are an app platform? What are you going to do, run into a local tech park and shout at the receptionist “EMERGENCY!”. They will kick you out fast like they do a hobo in NYC.

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