Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace
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Great idea. I just wonder how Flohmarkt is read by non-Germans.
Those non-Germans using Huawei/Xiaomi phones or buying from Shein? I reckon they'd not bat an eyelid, especially for English-speakers when you explain it means "flea market". With Shein if anyone even bothers asking about the name, all they want to know is how to pronounce it ("she in", not "shine" or "sheen") and what it means ("it's complicated", "OK, never mind then").
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I fail to see how it matters that a word commonly known as "german" is not directly German but instead is one step removed.
They could have just as easily pulled another easy-to-grok word from German and slightly changed the spelling.
Those arguing about this technicality here are missing the point.
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I don't think this can be used for monetisation, I am not sure the instance gets a cut of any sales, they are just connecting users.
That is an issue the Fediverse, with its anticapitalist stance, has yet to full address but Ghost is addressing how to monetise content in a Substack way and that subscription model is probably one that would be more acceptable on the Fediverse.
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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"
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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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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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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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It's German
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What a horrible language.
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Maybe you can request your instance to be added here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances
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UK instance please!
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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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Already added it
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Many people, including some in the thread!
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AFAIK not. Feel free to develop one!
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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 is well known that only names which are in the devinely decreed English language are acceptable on the internet