Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace
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Does it? If you set up an instance for your local community/city/whatever, and name it something that makes sense for your intended userbase, I think it would be fine.
It goes from "I sold my couch on FlohMarkt" to "I sold my couch on Local Ottawa Marketplace" for the 'normies' out there. They're not going to care about the underlying software so long as their couch gets sold.
Do recommend a DIY local advertising strategy if trying to get something like this running, though - posters at IRL flea markets, adverts in small community papers for antiques and collectibles, crossposts/links to postings on stuff like MaxSold/Kijiji/Craigslist/GumTree/FB Marketplace/[insert online marketplace operating in your area],that kind of thing.
Focus on the current primary use case of centralized marketplace services (buying shit from your neighbours), then introduce the "Oh yeah, we've also set it up so you can see postings on Local Toronto Marketplace, Local Kingston Marketplace, Marché Local de Montréal" etc. from there.
I really, really think talking to people in terms of specific instances over the overarching platform/protocol is a way around 'normie' confusion about the Fediverse when first trying it, then getting exposure to how it works in practice will help them understand the nitty gritty stuff better. Is this problematic in some cases, like with Lemmy? A little bit, yeah. For something like FlohMarkt? I think less so.
('normie' in quotes 'cause I'm not the biggest fan of the term, but it's a useful shorthand)
This! It's just the name of the software, not sure why everyone's getting so worked up about it.
I think it's a brilliant use case for federation, hope this sees some adoption!
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What a horrible name.
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I'd bet a lot of money the average English speaker pronounces Volkswagen with a "vee" at the beginning
The Latin alphabet is overloaded. Words using the same script will inevitably be interpreted by other languages using their own sound systems. Orthography is bad. Plus, it'd be like asking a Spanish speaker why they say "eschool" instead of "school" (phonotactics.
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Pole here.
A federated MediaMarkt. Or at least something with shopping, selling something. Definitely a German product. Should be a quality one, but I would name my instance (or a national one) differently, perhaps in a local language.
There is no point in making worldwide Flohmarkt instances (same for Mobilizon), so, the naming should be less a problem than you expect
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For other Fediverse software:
- Misskey is unmistakable which already makes it a good name
- PeerTube is on par with YouTube and is perfectly transparent as a description of software: "YouTube but with P2P"
- Writefreely is another clear but already proper name, definitely better than Medium or Substack (ony Medium's advantage - it sounds better in non-English languages)
- Loops and Friendica remind better of their purposes than TikTok/Vine and Facebook
- ... on the other hand, every Threadiverse app, no matter if it is /kbin, Mbin, Lemmy or PieFed, fails with it
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No matter where the site is operated from, as long as EU citizens can access it from their home countries?
Because I doubt that even fb marketplace can muster that with plausible accuracy. Especially the sales. When you take something down on marketplace it will ask if you sold it or not, but you can just tell it to mind its own business and say "no I totally just changed my mind"
Yes as long as business is accessible in EU it must set up hq in one of the eu countries and report data on sellers.
If we weren’t all preoccupied with spectating usians collapsing themselves maybe we would act before this thing came into power
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What a horrible name.
It's German
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It's German
What a horrible language.
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I just set up a Slovenian instance, flohmarkt.gregtech.eu
Maybe you can request your instance to be added here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances
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Bit of a chicken and egg situation there.
I suppose we could spin up a UK instance or find someone who would but then you'd need numbers to make it work too. However, if people would be interested in using this then speak up and it'd be easier to asses the need. It could be something regional instances bolt on as an added service.
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I don't agree? Even in big cities, I've often seen marketplace posts from people with mutual friends, so I could easily verify their trustworthiness. In other scenarios I can at least check to see if their posting history and/or profile seems legit or if there are any red flags. Having more data helps people decide whether to trust someone, but Craigslist doesn't allow for that.
But now that FB is overrun by AI bots and real users leave, there won't be many mutual friends left very soon....
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Maybe you can request your instance to be added here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances
Already added it
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I would host an instance if it's working well enough - has anyone done it yet?
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AFAIK not. Feel free to develop one!
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Yes as long as business is accessible in EU it must set up hq in one of the eu countries and report data on sellers.
If we weren’t all preoccupied with spectating usians collapsing themselves maybe we would act before this thing came into power
The thing is that since all content is federated, each government would have to ask every single instance worldwide for user data. Seems unenforceable.
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It's German
It is well known that only names which are in the devinely decreed English language are acceptable on the internet
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What if you could log in with your Mastodon (or other) Fediverse account, and they would too, so you could see their user history and connections? (And they could see yours)
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Just call it Floh Market or just Floh.
Flow Market or Just "Flow" would be good too.I like just "Floh", even if it does just mean "flea" in German.
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What if you could log in with your Mastodon (or other) Fediverse account, and they would too, so you could see their user history and connections? (And they could see yours)
That would be cool!
