Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace

[incogcyberspaceuser@lemmy.world]

Great idea.
I just wonder how Flohmarkt is read by non-Germans.
Anyone want to state their opinion, their initial experience seeing the word, on that?

[breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca]

Definitely weird on first reading. New names often seem weird or dumb at first so maybe I'll just get used to it. Anglicizing it might make sense? Fleamarkt?

[zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I think an English localization as 'Flowmarkt' or 'Flowmarket' might be more catchy in English-speaking countries, since the intended pronunciation for 'Flohmarkt' isn't clear at a first glance.

[robottoaster@mander.xyz]

I read it as being pronounced something like "flow-marked"

[skaverat@discuss.tchncs.de]

yeah, it's quite close

[muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee]

Cool. If u can host it as a tor hidden service that is a large an influential market that might benefit from such a thing. Haven't looked but it might need some additional features to work as a decent platform in that sense.

[theoctonaut@mander.xyz]

It reads like regurgitating dehydrated phlegm

[ballissle@lemmy.zip]

This is what i need so i can finally delete facebook but unfortunately this is too early and small with nothing piblically uk based and no one looking at it so things would never sell.

[jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de]

Why would English be objectively better than German?

[jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de]

At least most speakers of European languages will pronounce it close enough to German - though most will not do make the r in markt as hard as Germans do.

[subarctictundra@lemmy.ml]

What localities does this operate in so far?

[twistypencil@lemmy.world]

That name...

[twistypencil@lemmy.world]

Initial impressions of the name are not great.

[axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

The name has already made this nonviable for the average person

[state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de]

Because more people speak it?

[jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de]

Got it, let's name it in mandarin then

[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"