Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace

[temperche@discuss.tchncs.de]

As this project appears to be fairly unknown in the fediverse still, I'd like to use this opportunity to advertise Flohmarkt. This Fediverse equivalent of Facebook Marketplace already has some instances up and running - see here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances

[cris_color@lemmy.world]

Thats super cool!

[mudman@fedia.io]

I admit I haven't looked into this yet, but at as a headline my first thought was "that's a terrible idea and it's going to get someone killed".

[isbjerg@feddit.dk]

Why do you think that?

[bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de]

How does search work across instances? Like, if I created a new instance, how would the others discover me?

[scrollone@feddit.it]

Lack of moderation (given that any evil actor can spin up an instance and interact with other instances) can lead to scams, phishings, or even worse.

I'm not saying that Facebook's moderation is much better, but at least you can look up a profile and get a sense if they're a "real" person or not.

[temperche@discuss.tchncs.de]

There is a "Global" feed.

[temperche@discuss.tchncs.de]

Wouldn't that lead to other instances engaging into "evil" instance-wide bans?

[scrollone@feddit.it]

Probably. That's the best case scenario.

But moderation is expensive and time-consuming, and we cannot just hope that volunteers will do it for free for such a risky market.

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

Each instance controls who it interacts with.