Flohmarkt is still a really young platform, but it shows promise as a way for people to create listings, and reach out to one another.

As the Fediverse continues to grow, people are looking to build new experiences that change what’s possible on the network today.

Flohmarkt is a nascent project intended for selling personal items, and may be the first attempt of its kind here.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
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    2 months ago

    I was thinking something like this for jobs on the fediverse would be great, then thought it would probably be filled with high paying, highly technical jobs or low paying garbage jobs, or both with no between space. I’d love to be wrong.

  • a1studmuffin@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.

    • Omniraptor@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      I mean, how does craigslist handle it? This doesn’t seem much more technically complex than whatever craigslist does

  • callcc@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    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@slrpnk.net
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      3 months ago

      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.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, I’ll try to look into this for clarity. It really depends on what they mean here - I think they’re referring to curated server following between admins, which is what PeerTube does.

      When I tested out the messaging system, I was able to federate back and forth with Mastodon. Maybe it works fine at a user level, it’s just the search entries that don’t get federated automatically?