Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace

[yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de]

Removing the accent marks makes it such that the word isn't German anymore, just German-inspired. It would have to be written "Ueber" instead.

You know, like a Mr. Böing founding the company Boeing.

[shard@lemmy.world]

Lemmy is a stupid god awful name.

The first result you get on google is a dead singer. Every other search you will have him on the front page instead of what you're trying to find. Contrast this to searching for something from reddit.

Case in point guitar reviews lemmy vs guitar reviews reddit

[trickdacy@lemmy.world]

I think you're splitting hairs and it's not helpful. I have only ever known "Uber" as a German word and you saying it isn't one won't change my or others' experience of it as such.

[shades@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

"I will not use anonymous marketplaces."

"I won't take cash, either" vibes

[trickdacy@lemmy.world]

And yet I always knew that it came from german and when I looked up the etymology that was confirmed correct. I honestly have no idea why people want to have a "conversation" like this

[shades@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

You wanna pay for that hosting? No? Okay then.

[endofline@lemmy.ca]

You can use gpg signatures

[lena@gregtech.eu]

I just set up a Slovenian instance, flohmarkt.gregtech.eu

[pyre@lemmy.world]

wow what an interesting sarcastic remark about something the op never said.

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

Ad-software huh ?
Maybe this could solve the monetisation issue of let's say PeerTube

[itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Uber is a loan word. Doesn't matter how your perceive it, that doesn't make it a more German. So is iceberg.

[trickdacy@lemmy.world]

doesn’t make it a more German. So is iceberg.

There is absolutely no way in which this even matters a slight bit.

[miaou@jlai.lu]

I'd bet a lot of money the average English speaker pronounces Volkswagen with a "vee" at the beginning

[gigasser@lemmy.world]

Just call it Floh Market or just Floh.
Flow Market or Just "Flow" would be good too.

[guitarson2024@lemmy.world]

Ghost town and nothing but scams and business spam at this point. It's a shame that FB marketplace killed it, because it was relatively simple and useful for what it did

[itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

You're in a thread complaining about a software using a German name for it's German meaning. Your example for a 'good German name' is an English word that has German origins.

[emperor@feddit.uk]

"Just go to fedi.markets"

I don't see an issue. With any service on the Internet you direct people to the URL of an instance not the underlying code. If they saw "powered by flohmarkt" and asked what that was, I'd say it was German for "flea market" and I imagine they would be satisfied with that.

[emperor@feddit.uk]

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.

[yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de]

Inspired, yes. But uber is still not a German word.

Imagine if I founded a company called "Tougt" and claimed this is an English word. Not inspired by, is.
Who needs the letter 'h' anyways?

[emperor@feddit.uk]

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").