Random Thought: What would happen if you crossed Mastodon with Uber? :/
@Angle We should totally do that -- a Federated Cooperative Taxi Service.
@Angle A decentralized, free ride share service run by and for trans people, queers, furries, and spoonies? I mean... that would kind of be amazing.
@SuzanEraslan For bonus points, expand it beyond ride sharing. Share any random thing you don't currently need or want to get rid of. :P
@Angle @SuzanEraslan I'm trying to conceptualize how you would decentralize this.
@Miller_Geek @Angle @SuzanEraslan hm, a well-known convention for a couple endpoints for isOffering and isNeeding maybe, riding on top of current activitypub use on mastodon, for instance, to leverage the follow graphs, visibility, privacy, and authentication
@Miller_Geek @SuzanEraslan @djsundog I don't know about putting it on top of mastodon - I think it would need to be it's own thing. It would also need a comparatively large number of servers - multiple per city, probably. All in all probably not feasible, but it is a cool idea. Maybe it could be possible to make something like it, but more like Craigslist, or whatever? "Got a chair I don't want, come and get it."
@SuzanEraslan @icefox @Angle what does it mean to be a spoony?
@photex @icefox @Angle The Wikipedia entry actually gives a good breakdown of spoon theory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory
@SuzanEraslan @photex @icefox @Angle wow, I totally relate to this. Thanks!
@SuzanEraslan @Angle We have/had Homobiles here in SF, haven't heard much about them recently which makes me think they are getting crushed by Uber
@Angle carpooling
@Angle it'd be like Uber, but for microblogging