Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace

[snapz@lemmy.world]

God... remember how fucking simple craigslist was when it hit it's peak? The fact that Grandpa could take a shaky flip phone picture and post a thing you needed right around the corner, no fat or other frivolous horseshit...

Craigslist is still simple last I checked, but the user base left and now dominated by spam from retail and drop shippers masquerading as local people selling goods from their garage.

Nothing gold can stay

[itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Uber isn't a German word tho?

[itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Which is also reasonably close to the German pronunciation (which is something like Flo-marked to an English speaker)

[corkyskog@sh.itjust.works]

Idk. It's still got some uses. My dad got a bunch of industrial refrigerator panels for stupid cheap off Craigslist like 6 months ago.

[itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Like eBay, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon?

[temperche@discuss.tchncs.de]

The idea would be to host local instances.

[darkdarkhouse@lemmy.sdf.org]

Something, something über alles...

[itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

über? which you'd spell ueber, if you can't type ü

[nyamlae@lemmy.world]

At least when I used Craigslist, there was no social network element to it, so it was difficult to determine the trustworthiness of any given poster.

For that reason, I don't want a Fediverse clone of Craigslist -- I want an existing Fediverse platform to add a marketplace. I will not use anonymous marketplaces.

[tudsamfa@lemmy.world]

Will keep an eye on this, but there is nothing too local here (No, I can't host something myself). Given how the specification says there should be a location and radius per instance, some admins are really slacking on putting that info in the description.

[darkdarkhouse@lemmy.sdf.org]

Isn’t this more like the software you’d use to build whatever local (but maybe federated) site? Like, you don’t ask your friend if they’ve been on Shopify or Squarespace lately.

[snapz@lemmy.world]

If you feel any kind of meaningful trustworthiness from a Facebook profile, you've probably got some other things to worry about...

[snapz@lemmy.world]

Yeah, you can still get something from the odd crank, but used to be much more practically useful for day to day needs.

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

german looks notoriously complicated for people who dont speak it

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

as always with these, it really comes down to whos using it.

[nyamlae@lemmy.world]

I don't agree? Even in big cities, I've often seen marketplace posts from people with mutual friends, so I could easily verify their trustworthiness. In other scenarios I can at least check to see if their posting history and/or profile seems legit or if there are any red flags. Having more data helps people decide whether to trust someone, but Craigslist doesn't allow for that.

[trickdacy@lemmy.world]

Etymology
From German über (“above”, preposition), which is also used as a prefix (über-); cognate with over. Entered English through Nietzsche's use of the word Übermensch. Doublet of over, super and hyper.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uber

[trickdacy@lemmy.world]

Yeah, possibly. Depends -- if the data is federated between instances (which I assumed) you could have access to the whole world's market and it would still be useful if there was a feature that allowed you filter out locations you're not currently interested in.

[pyre@lemmy.world]

what some people don't get is that "flea market" is also a bad name. floh just makes it look and sound worse and it's harder to parse let alone understand and therefore remember.

[emmie@lemm.ee]

In my local area government interrogates selling boards about my data what I sell and such. I wonder if this could be forever resistant to authorities provided somebody actually uses it?