Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace

[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"

[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.