Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace

[jrockwar@feddit.uk]

Language	Native Speakers	Total Speakers	Sources
English	~380 million	~1.5 billion	Wikipedia
German	~76–95 million	~155–220 million	Wikipedia
Mandarin	~941 million–1.12 billion	~1.1–1.3 billion	Wikipedia

Well, it has 10x more speakers than German, but it still has fewer speakers than English and most of them are localised in a single country.

[bananatrifleviolin@lemmy.world]

Yeah but if you had to search for it you'd have a trouble spelling it. Flowmarked would be how English speakers would hear that I think.

It probably needs an English brand name for outside the germano-sphere - fedimarket?

[kichae@lemmy.ca]

We have to stop sending end users to software solutions for web admins. We don't send them yo "nginx" or "apache", after all.

Someone throw up a website using this software and give the site a sensible name, and then direct users to that website.

[kichae@lemmy.ca]

"flow market"

[jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de]

And why should we name things for the exclusive convenience of monolingual English speakers to the detriment of everyone else?

[state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de]

Please stop being an obnoxious ass. English is the de-facto lingua franca of the world, acting like German is in any way comparable is just disingenuous.

[timestatic@feddit.org]

This is about localization, not about renaming the thing

[spikesotherdog@ani.social]

Interesting idea. How do you deal with illegal trade?

[surewhynotlem@lemmy.world]

I love that you called it the lingua franca.

Why yes, English is the French.

[barbarian@sh.itjust.works]

Non-German but I am in the EU. Didn't find it odd at all. Just assumed it was "flow market" in German.

[endeavor@sopuli.xyz]

I forgot its spelling the moment i scrolled past it.

[endeavor@sopuli.xyz]

Uh do you not know what "lingua franca" means or are you making a joke?

[brbposting@sh.itjust.works]

Flohcebook Marktplace

[bad_alloc@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Sprich deutsch!

[tetris11@lemmy.ml]

They need to use an easier name, like Kleinanzeigen or something

[temperche@discuss.tchncs.de]

Fleabook

[maniclucky@lemmy.world]

It's not that bad. It's just German for flea market. And English speakers shouldn't have an issue with at least "Markt". Not far from a cognate.

Definitely better names but I think the bigger hurdle is getting the critical mass to get something like marketplace to work in the fediverse even with the perfect name.

[maniclucky@lemmy.world]

Close. It's flea market.

[aleq@lemmy.world]

Swede here, see no issue with the name. I'll just ignore the h when pronouncing though.

[maniclucky@lemmy.world]

I don't disagree conceptually, but English has been the lingua franca for a long time now.