the whole point of this Fediverse experiment is for things to be distributed
I strongly disagree with this. This point is that it CAN be distributed, not that it needs to be.
That’s like saying the whole point of making divorce legal is so that everybody gets divorced. It’s the option that’s the important bit.
I’d avoid anything federated with Hexbear or Lemmygrad.
The key between UberEATS and a much better service you describe is that the drivers need to stay on site, and the site needs to be geographically in the same place.
But yeah, I agree a better model would be tiny GrubHubs that service one, very small restaurant area. Basically the pizza delivery drivers also deliver for the 4-5 restaurants around the pizza place.
It’d be better service for the users, likely cheaper, and better for the restaurants who have 4-7 consistent drivers, and it’d be better for the drivers who actually get an hourly wage on top of their delivery fees.
Someone just has to build the infrastructure for this, have the capital to get started, sell the restaurants on it, and advertise the service.
I think this part actually isn’t enshittification. I think this is being legally cautious, as you probably should be when you’re Microsoft.
Private equity used the same play against Red Lobster. Sell off all the land (to their other company), charge enough rent to possibly bankrupt the initial company, and either they find a way to pay it (usually enshittification) or they don’t. Either way, money is extracted and others are left holding the literal bills.
Well, this leak is out there now for whoever decided to use it. And it’s being publicized. That doesn’t seem good for the people having their payroll data leaked.
This is generally not how one goes about disclosure.
It might be. It’s hard to tell the difference anymore.
It’s weird to be in a comment chain where you’re not seeing the replies that other people are seeing.