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The guy behind Shit Rentals has made a free public database for tenants (beat.com.au)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The guy behind Shit Rentals has made a free public database for tenants::Named after his influential TikTok series, Shit Rentals, Jordie van den Berg (aka Purple Pingers) announced the database on the website formerly known as Twitter.

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[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 109 points 1 year ago (3 children)

the website formerly known as Twitter.

Every time a journalist refuses to acknowledge the idiotic name change is another little hit of dopamine.

[–] bitcrafter@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Given their choice of logo, I am advocating for everyone to start referring to it as Twitter/X11.

[–] HW07@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Isn't the logo just a unicode character? The X in X.Org is 2 seperate pieces that bend away from each other at the center.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

X also a terrible search term. Searching for an article with the word Twitter in it should work a lot better.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Should read: the formerly successful website known as Twitter

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would love something like this in the UK.

[–] WallEx@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

We need this world wide I guess, here in Germany many landlords suck and i would be happy to let people know.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I could make one for the uk, if you think there would be a userbase for it.

Wouldn’t want to make money from it.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would very much talk with a lawyer first.

These kinds of things crop up every few years and either become dens of racism or get sued to oblivion. And the UK has some pretty hefty libel laws

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What if it was hosted in another country and set up through a shell company, like these large companies like to hide behind?

I will seek legal advice first but just thinking out loud I guess.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Read the history of the Pirate Bay. That should give you some ideas how to make a site that is reasonably resistant to laws and governments.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

If you have the know how to implement it and the money to maintain it then probably

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to be a crypto-bro, but if you bought a domain and hosting from, say njal.la or incognet using Monero and you only connected to your hosts to SSH/FTP behind a good VPN, there's not much anyone could do to discover who you are.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

I’ll keep that in mind when ready to launch. Currently just putting together a prototype.

[+] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world -9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you Jordie van den Berg? Cool name btw. Very German. Reminded me of Paul van Dyk. Why haven't you created one for Germany? Are you a German in Australia?

With respect to building on efor the UK - I think it'd be popular in the UK. We've got more people renting now and house prices are becomign impossible for people to get. We also have a lot of MPs who are landlords so a database like this would highlight conflicts of interest! For example the current Tory government announced protections for tenants by removing no-fault evictions. Homelessness went through the roof as landlords stated evicting people before the law came out. Those that managed to hang on had their rents increased by huge amounts. (e.g. mine went £625-£750).

The government have yet to implement it. Some papers highlighted a hefty number of current Tory MPs are landlords who profited from the rent increase following the announcement.

The more I think about it the more I think this would be popular in a lot of countries as houses becoming a luxury/investment isn't unique to Aus and the UK.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am not that person. Just a random uk resident happy to build something similar if enough people would benefit from it.

Just happy to share my skills and not looking to make it profitable in any way. Just a simple service for people to check existing properties or to add theirs.

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What in gods name are you doing up at this hour? I'm an unemployed insomniac - what's your excuse?

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fell asleep super early yesterday.

Had a car crash so think was a bit shook. Would normally be getting ready for work but I’ve taken the day off to sort insurance out.

When do you usually sleep then?

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hope you're ok

[–] hagelslager@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Jordie van den Berg seems to be of Dutch descent. In the 50s thousands of Dutch people emigrated there.

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This is a fantastic idea