Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace

[temperche@discuss.tchncs.de]

As this project appears to be fairly unknown in the fediverse still, I'd like to use this opportunity to advertise Flohmarkt. This Fediverse equivalent of Facebook Marketplace already has some instances up and running - see here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances

[temperche@discuss.tchncs.de]

Maybe someone may want to put links to Flohmarkt instances on Craigslist or FB Marketplace to put more eyes on it?

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

any of them US?

[temperche@discuss.tchncs.de]

Feel free to host an US instance

[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