• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Remember back before Airbnb when this was just a free thing called couch surfing?

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      6 months ago

      i mean couch surfing is guest and host being there and interacting with each other.

      AirBnB is getting the flat for yourself for the time you rent it.

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        6 months ago

        That’s exactly how airBnB started though. Then they moved to renting out the whole place and now we are where we are.

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      6 months ago

      Uber was originally marketed as ride-sharing, too. Just an app to find people going the same way. Of course, I’m fairly sure that their current iterations was the plan all along as anyone with enough business sense to start those companies must have predicted that there would be people who take on Uber/AirBnB as a primary source of income. But sharing your house or planning a shared trip is much more palatable than “Landlords but Worse”.