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a1studmuffin ,
@a1studmuffin@aussie.zone avatar

One of the biggest challenges with online marketplaces is personal safety for physical meetups and scam prevention for online sales. It’ll be interesting if there are any efforts to solve this, such as an escrow system or other process to keep buyers and sellers honest.

taur10 ,

@deadsuperhero Craigslist for Fediverse?

50MYT ,

Dumb question.

Drugs? Like I immediately thought silk road 3.0

kindenough ,

Vlooienmarkt in Dutch.

LilDumpy ,
@LilDumpy@lemmy.world avatar

This is so cool.

callcc ,

Yeah, very nice. It will be tough to bootstrap since you need a critical mass of people who ideally live close together so that it’s cheap and quick enough to deliver the items in question.

I’ll give it a try. Nothing to loose.

Samsy ,

Lol, must be created by a german. Flohmarkt literally means a private marketplace. Directly translated to english its a “Fleamarket”.

caos ,
@caos@metalhead.club avatar

@Samsy is created by 👉 @grindhold @deadsuperhero

TropicalDingdong ,

So is there a link to a live instance?

edit: link to live instance rollenspiel.trade/

caos ,
@caos@feddit.org avatar

Here is A list of server known to run flohmarkt

RobotToaster ,
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz avatar

A federated ebay\vinted\amazon alternative sounds like a great idea, but I saw this on their repository.

A flohmarkt can manually federate with other flohmarkts in its range

If I’m reading this correctly, there’s no automatic federation between instances, which will make item discovery difficult.

poVoq ,
@poVoq@slrpnk.net avatar

The goal is to promote a local market. Not much point to have a marketplace with used items from the other side of the world.

Although manual curation of the connected instances would also work for a specialist marketplace where you can only find specific types of items.

I think both use-cases make more sense than general marketplace with mostly irrelevant entries.

AsudoxDev ,
@AsudoxDev@programming.dev avatar

I love this.

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