Could the Fediverse handle money? (self.fediverse)

submitted 1 year ago by Firefly7 to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I'm envisioning a hypothetical future where, alongside competing with platforms like Reddit/Twitter/Instagram/etc, federated platforms compete with retail or service-providing platforms like Amazon, Uber, Fiverr, Airbnb, etc, platforms that primarily just serve to connect users to other users and handle transactions between them. Is this future possible or desirable?

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[-] moonsnotreal 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The fediverse is not private at all. If you have access to the database you can see all interactions, like posts, comments, likes, saves, dms, ip address. I don't want my card details in a system like that.

Edit: Your instance admins can see everything, but I don't know if other instance admins can see everything.