I imagine it would be a matching engine that projects can apply to their own specific needs. Or are the brains of DoorDash and Uber already open source, like how most of the WWW runs on FOSS?

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If you mean something like self hosted, it would be really easy, but no one would use it. Imagine you order a burrito and the guy just eats your burrito, and you can’t do anything about it. Or imagine you’re a driver and you deliver the food, then don’t get paid. You need a business in between to take the liability for anyone to trust it. It being open source wouldn’t really matter, because you need massive capital and infrastructure to make it work.

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Darkweb works well enough. I think you are wrong.

Massive capital only helps by lobbying and marketing.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That’s not the only thing it helps with. But you mentioned marketing, and that too is really necessary to build out a network of drivers.

Capital is also necessary to take the hit when there’s a dispute. If you can’t do that, people will have way less incentive to use your platform. It doesn’t matter if it’s open source at that point, people won’t care when they’re losing money.

I think the solution is a worker owned alternative, not just open source.

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I think op is thinking of it like that and I definitely was. Or a decentralized platform.

Either of those and even an automated organization can easily have provisions for disputes.

[–] keshvahti@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The driver could have an account with a rating and stuff