Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace

[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?

[happydoors@lemm.ee]

It honestly just looks like a spelling mistake to me

[womble@lemmy.world]

• Lemmy is no better or worse than Reddit
• Pixelfeed is significantly better than Instagram
• Mastodon is much worse than Twitter

Seems to me pretty much an even spread of how good the names are

[maniclucky@lemmy.world]

The sentence structure is kinda wonky coming from English, but the vocab isn't bad. There are tons of cognates.

[pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz]

That's what you should do anyway, the h simply elongates the o

[lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org]

"gStore" sounds... suspicious. XD

[darkdarkhouse@lemmy.sdf.org]

Yeah, would also be nice to be able to combine multiple local markets.

[emmie@lemm.ee]

I am super curious how does it stack against DAC7 European Directive 2021/514 from 22 march 2021.

The European law says that such sites must provide a list of users and sales

[absolutechicagodog@lemm.ee]

What about Craigslist

[star@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

This looks cool! Any android apps?

[yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de]

Right, über is a word. "uber" is very much not. The points aren't decoration or a pronunciation guide, they signify a different letter.

It's like saying that Spanish people call their country Espana.

[sol6_vi@lemmy.world]

I would host an instance if it's working well enough - has anyone done it yet?

[trickdacy@lemmy.world]

Are you really going to argue this? Those accent marks aren't in all languages, which is mainly why they removed them. If you want to claim this isn't the German word then you need to explain where it came from.

[itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

'uber' is an English word with a German ethnology. 'über' is a German word. That's like saying iceberg is German. u and ü are different letters. They are pronounced differently and change the meaning of words (e.g. 'Schuppe' means scale, 'Schüppe' means shovel)

[trickdacy@lemmy.world]

...I don't know what point you're making. The word came from german, and the changing of the letter only goes to my point. The word was easily simplified to be used outside of German.

[itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

You're in a thread complaining about a software using a German name for it's German meaning (Flohmarkt means flea market). Your example for a 'good German name' is an English word that has German origins. Don't you see how those are different?

[anzo@programming.dev]

"Facebook" is an equally alienating name if you don't know English. But I agree, German is difficult!

[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.