flohmarkt
codeberg.org
federated decentral classified ad software using activitypub

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

The developers are always open for discussion on their IRC channel: https://web.libera.chat/?nick=GithubGuest%3F#flohmarkt

Please feel free to host a local instance for your city/town and invite friends and family to post. Flohmarkt relies on local relationships and pick-up items only rather than shipping stuff worldwide.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    2·
    4 hours ago

    I have been playing around with it, it’s not too hard to set up. I’m going to probe how well people might want to leave FB marketplace, and hopefully v 0.6.2 with CAPTCHA anti-spam support will arrive soon.

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    They’re all in German or something…

    I looked into it on Yunohost and it said some stuff about “CouchDB” that I did not remotely understand.

  • glimse@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 hours ago

    Great idea… Not so sure about the name, though. Hard to spread by word of mouth when you have to spell it out

    • naeap@sopuli.xyz
      7·
      6 hours ago

      Depends on your native language.
      It’s German for flea market

      But yeah, I guess in English speaking countries it’s a bit hard to say ;⁠-⁠)

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Because of the three hard consonants at the end and they all get pronounced? I mean the “Flohma” part shouldn’t be an issue… 😆

        • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
          3·
          4 hours ago

          The point is not that it’s difficult to pronounce, but that the correct spelling is difficult to guess from the pronunciation (in English) and therefore the person recommending it in conversation must provide the spelling explicitly, which is annoying and likely to lead to confusion and failure to find the actual site.

          • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
            3·
            1 hour ago

            Thanks. I didn’t get that. I guess that’s always an issue with foreign words. Or invented company and product names like in the times when it was popular to name a startup something like flupidoo and mavendo… and they were all called like that.

            On the other hand it should also help with the googling. I mean if you call it ‘market’ or ‘flea market’, American users will get like 50 pages of unrelated matches first. Like if you google Lemmy. And this is a bit more distinct.

        • naeap@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          4 hours ago

          Just pronounced like market, without the ‘e’
          Or like the name Mark with a ‘t’ at the end
          Or actually pretty much like ‘marked’, when you e.g. mark a word

          Maybe disregard the first 2 approximations, ‘marked’ is very much how it’s pronounced

          Edit: to complete this:
          You would say something like ‘flow marked’ and that would be very very near the correct pronunciation :⁠-⁠)

          Edit 2: the h is silent and only says, that the o before is longer. So just like you stretch the o in flow.

    • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      6 hours ago

      The first instance is called fedi.markets

      Instances can be named anything. We have sh.itjust.works on Lemmy after all